ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,356, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ASUKANET COMPANY LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Aerial image forming element comprising a transparent base member having first and second reflecting surfaces and aerial image forming device" was invented by Makoto Otsubo (Hiroshima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerial image forming element 10a used for an aerial image forming device 30 includes a plurality of first and second light reflecting surfaces 12 and 14 respectively formed vertically on the obverse and reverse surfaces of a flat plate-like transparent base member 11a. The plurality of first light reflecting surfaces 12 are placed...