ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,817, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GEMMY INDUSTRIES Corp. (Coppell, Texas).

"Double image projection lamp with fade-in and fade-out visual effects" was invented by Cheng-Chun Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A double image projection lamp has a housing, a first and a second projecting assembly in the housing, a driver, a light shielding element, and a driven component. The second projecting assembly has a shell body pivotally connected to the housing, connected to the driver, and having a sliding groove between a projecting end of the shell body and a light emitting unit of the second projecting assembly. Th...