US Patent Issued to Wacom on Oct. 21 for "Pairing method, position detecting system, position indicator and position detecting apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,926, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Pairing method, position detecting system, position indicator and position detecting apparatus" was invented by Yoshifumi Konda (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pairing method between a stylus and a position detecting apparatus that detects a position pointed to by the stylus includes: sharing, by the position detecting apparatus, a sensor identifier (ID) that is included in an uplink signal transmitted to the stylus while the stylus and the position detecting apparatus are proximate to each other at or within a predetermined distance, the senso...