ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,933, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Sensor controller, electronic device, and control method of sensor controller" was invented by Kenichi Ono (Saitama, Japan), Paiching Hsiao (Saitama, Japan), Yoshio Nomura (Saitama, Japan) and Yuhi Hatano (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sensor controller that controls an operation of a touch sensor that detects a position of a passive pointer. The sensor controller includes a transmission circuit transmitting a transmission signal in a third period at a predetermined cycle, the third period including a first period and a second peri...