ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,559, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Input device" was invented by Hiroshi Munakata (Saitama, Japan) and Yuanhao Chen (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Virtual Reality (VR) image generation system includes a sensor; a detection circuit which, in operation, detects a first indicated position indicated by an electronic pen in a first three-dimensional space in accordance with transfer of a signal between the electronic pen and the sensor; one or more processors; and one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or mor...