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Is a smart pen patented?
Short answer: specific designs of a smart pen have been patented many times, but "a smart pen" as a general idea is not what is protected. What matters is the exact combination of features in your version.
What our index shows
- 198 US and WO patent publications since 2000 have a title matching “smartdigital pen” or a close variant (our index of 9.7 million patent families; one publication per family).
- Among the 179 best keyword matches we examined, 75 were published in 2020 or later, and the earliest was published in 2003.
- Most frequent assignees in those matches: HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO (17), SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD (15), IBM (11), SHENZHEN EAGLESOUL EDUCATION SERVICE CO LTD (10).
- Most common patent classes (CPC subclasses): G06F (161), G06V (32), G09B (11), G06Q (11).
Counts come from keyword matching on titles and abstracts, so they are indicative, not a legal count. Some matches are different products that share a word.
14 real patent publications related to a smart pen
- Smart pen US-2026184101-A1 2026 · THE CODDER CO LTD
A smart pen according to the present invention includes an ink accommodating unit in which inks having different colors are accommodated, a scanning unit configured to extract position coordinates through a first point cluster pat…
View on Google Patents - Method and apparatus for analyzing writing behavior feature of smart pen, and electronic device WO-2022099868-A1 2022 · SHENZHEN EAGLESOUL EDUCATION SERVICE CO LTD
A method and apparatus for analyzing a writing behavior feature of a smart pen, and an electronic device, relating to the technical field of data processing. The method comprises: calculating a first feature of handwriting data on…
View on Google Patents - Smart pen pressure sensor drive circuit WO-2022000739-A1 2022 · SHENZHEN EAGLESOUL EDUCATION SERVICE CO LTD
A smart pen pressure sensor drive circuit, relating to the technical field of smart pens. The smart pen pressure sensor drive circuit comprises: an interface terminal; a voltage transformation and conversion chip; an operational a…
View on Google Patents - Smart pen WO-2021139527-A1 2021 · SHENZHEN EAGLESOUL TECH CO LTD
Provided is a smart pen, comprising: a pen housing (1), a refill (2) and a pen cap (4), wherein a support is arranged in the pen housing (1); the support is provided with a main processor, and a handwriting collector and a memory …
View on Google Patents - Split-type smart pen WO-2021139526-A1 2021 · SHENZHEN EAGLESOUL TECH CO LTD
Provided is a split-type smart pen, comprising a pen housing body (1), a pen housing attachment (3), and a pen cap (7); the pen housing body (1) is internally provided with a bracket; the bracket is provided with a main processor,…
View on Google Patents - Electronic conference apparatus for generating handwriting information based on sensed touch point, method for controlling same, and digital pen US-10936116-B2 2021 · SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
An electronic conference apparatus, a method for controlling the same, and a digital pen are provided. The electronic conference apparatus includes a sensor configured to sense a touch point of a digital pen through first hand wri…
View on Google Patents - Digital Cursor Display Linked to a Smart Pen US-2017220140-A1 2017 · LIVESCRIBE INC
A system and a method are disclosed for calibrating writing on a writing surface to a digital document. One or more calibration parameters associated with a writing surface and a digital document of a display device are determined…
View on Google Patents - Interactive Digital Workbook Using Smart Pens US-2016162137-A1 2016 · LIVESCRIBE INC
A system and method are disclosed for interacting with digital workbooks. An identifier, identifying a physical workbook, is received. The physical workbook is associated with a digital book and can be displayed on a display scree…
View on Google Patents - Tagging of written notes captured by a smart pen US-9335838-B2 2016 · LIVESCRIBE INC
A system and a method are disclosed for organizing content collected in a pen-based computing system. A plurality of groups of stroke data are obtained. Each group of stroke data is associated with a timestamp based on the timing …
View on Google Patents - Multiple-user collaboration with a smart pen system US-2016117142-A1 2016 · LIVESCRIBE INC
A central device concurrently receives handwriting gestures from a plurality of smart pen devices. Each set of handwriting gestures includes a sequence of spatial positions of the corresponding smart pen device with respect to a w…
View on Google Patents - Organization of user generated content captured by a smart pen computing system US-8374992-B2 2013 · LIVESCRIBE INC
In a pen-based computing system, use of paradigms similar to those used with physical paper to organize user generated content captured by a smart pen is disclosed. Data, such as handwriting gestures, is captured by the smart pen …
View on Google Patents - Enhanced audio recording for smart pen computing systems US-8284951-B2 2012 · VAN SCHAACK ANDY
In a pen-based computing system, a pair of microphones captures audio concurrently with a smart pen device capturing handwriting gestures. The audio captured by the pair of microphones is processed to produce an enhanced audio rec…
View on Google Patents - Communicating audio and writing using a smart pen computing system US-2009021495-A1 2009 · EDGECOMB TRACY L
In a pen-based computing system, audio data is recorded from a microphone on the smart pen, and synchronized writing gesture data is generated from a gesture signal. Unsynchronized writing gesture data may also be received from an…
View on Google Patents - Ink Tags In A Smart Pen Computing System US-2009251338-A1 2009 · LIVESCRIBE INC
Embodiments of the invention present a system and method for generating digital links, or “ink tags,” from handwritten notes on a writing surface. Handwritten data, including one or more ink tags identifying digital content, is ca…
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What this means for your idea
Because patents cover specific combinations of features, the useful question is not “has a smart pen been patented?” but “has my combination of features been described before?” Consumer electronics are among the most heavily patented areas; the specific circuit, mounting, or interaction is what distinguishes a design.
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First-look landscape. Not exhaustive. Not legal advice. This page lists keyword-matched publications from a limited database; it does not say whether any product is or isn't covered by a patent, whether a patent is still in force, or whether your idea is patentable. Consult a registered patent attorney or agent.