ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,335, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AGC Inc. (Tokyo).

"Fixture of half mirror" was invented by Satoshi Niiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixture of the half mirror provides a half mirror spanning a display surface on a front side of a display panel and an air layer interposed therebetween. The fixture includes: a display mount joining the fixture itself to a center of a back surface of the display panel; a bridge that extends from the display mount toward an outer periphery of the display panel, further extends outward over the outer periphery of the display panel, and is joined to an outer periphery of the half mirro...