G06F 3/04162
For exchanging data with external devices
Official title: {for exchanging data with external devices, e.g. smart pens, via the digitiser sensing hardware}
G06F3/04162 (For exchanging data with external devices) appears on 1,605 US grants and 1,944 published applications in this corpus.
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By later US patents
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