US 12,086,366 B1
Multi-color stylus for mutual capacitance touch screen devices
Madhu Pavan Kothapally, Warangal (IN); Namrata Kumari, Jamshedpur (IN); Narinder Kaur, Ludhiana (IN); and Ray Anderson, Decatur, GA (US)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Mar. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/118,647.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/0354 (2013.01); G06F 3/038 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 3/0442 (2019.05) [G06F 3/02 (2013.01); G06F 3/03545 (2013.01); G06F 3/0383 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A stylus, comprising:
an elongated body having an input mechanism for receiving, by the stylus directly from a user, user selection of a color to be output on a screen of a computing device in response to interaction of the stylus with the computing device;
a display unit in the elongated body for outputting an indication of the color selected via the input mechanism; and
a nib functional as a transmitting unit to publish the selected color to a receiver of the computing device when the nib is in contact and/or near contact with the receiver of the computing device for causing the selected color to be output on the screen of the computing device.