ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,511, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AGC Inc. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device" was invented by Ryuta Sonoda (Tokyo), Kentaro Oka (Tokyo) and Tetsuya Hiramatsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a hardly visible imaging device.An imaging device, which comprises an imaging unit installed inside a window glass of a building, capturing images of outside of the window glass through the window glass, and a fixing part fixing the imaging unit toward the window glass."

The patent was filed on July 13, 2023, under Application No. 18/351,553.

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