US Patent Issued to Wacom on Oct. 21 for "Electronic pen" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,917, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Electronic pen" was invented by Takenori Kaneda (Saitama, Japan), Kohei Tanaka (Saitama, Japan), Hideyuki Hara (Saitama, Japan), Shunya Saito (Saitama, Japan) and Akiyuki Kake (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic pen includes a tubular casing; a vibration transmitting member disposed within a hollow portion of the tubular casing and capable of transmitting vibration occurring in the vibration transmitting member to the tubular casing; a vibrator disposed on the vibration transmitting member; a pulse generator configured to generate a pul...