ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,089, issued on June 2, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Optical device" was invented by Norihiro Imamura (Osaka, Japan), Kenji Nagatomi (Osaka, Japan), Michihiro Yamagata (Osaka, Japan), Keiichi Matsuzaki (Kyoto, Japan) and Hirofumi Hoshida (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a housing and at least one mirror. The housing can be detachably mounted on a display and includes an entrance that allows light emitted from the display to enter the interior of the housing with the housing mounted on the display and an exit that allows the light having entered the in...