ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,220, issued on July 14, was assigned to Nippon Seiki Co. Ltd. (Niigata, Japan).

"Mirror and head-up display device" was invented by Tetsuta Higuchi (Niigata, Japan), Akitoshi Koshiba (Niigata, Japan) and Hiroyuki Furusawa (Niigata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a mirror in which an optical film more firmly adheres to a base material, and a head-up display device including the mirror. A mirror disclosed herein includes a base material that is formed of a synthetic resin material, an adhesion layer that is provided on one surface of the base material, and an optical film that adheres to the base material by the adhesi...