G06F 3/03546
Using a rotatable ball at the tip as position detecting member
Official title: {using a rotatable ball at the tip as position detecting member}
G06F3/03546 (Using a rotatable ball at the tip as position detecting member) appears on 149 US grants and 170 published applications in this corpus.
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- Implement for optically inferring information from a planar jotting surface177US 7,203,384 B2Electronic Scripting Products, Inc. · 2007
- Writing tip position sensing and processing apparatus173US 5,294,792 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1994
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