US Patent Issued to Wacom on Oct. 14 for "Stylus detection system having touch object detecting mode and stylus detecting mode" (Ukrainian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,293, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Stylus detection system having touch object detecting mode and stylus detecting mode" was invented by Viktor Kremin (Lviv, Ukraine), Andriy Ryshtun (Lviv, Ukraine) and David G. Wright (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stylus detecting system includes a sense array including N number of first lines and M number of second lines crossing the N number of first lines; and a touch controller connected to the sense array and configured to: (i) in a touch object detecting mode, drive the N number of first lines as transmission (TX) lines with a finge...