ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,773, issued on March 17, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Display apparatus and display method" was invented by Yasunobu Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshinori Okada (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuhiko Yoshizawa (Kyoto, Japan), Hitoshi Akiyama (Kyoto, Japan) and Mayumi Nakade (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a display device and a processor, and the display device displays at least the virtual object among the individual real object cut out from the external real body as an object and the virtual object to be arranged in three dimensions, the object for which the user wants to view is determine...