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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2014
Applicant:
Synaptics Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Tom Vandermeijden, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Christopher Weber, San Jose, CA (US);
Doug Krumpelman, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey Small, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Synaptics Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/033 (2013.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/0354 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2013.01); G06F 3/03545 (2013.01);
Abstract
A passive pen includes a pen body, and a tip disposed at a first end of the pen body. The tip capacitively couples to the pen body, and the capacitive coupling is configured to change the tip from a first ground mass state to a second ground mass state.