ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,898, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MCi (Mirror Controls International) Netherlands B.V. (Woerden, Netherlands).

"Driving component for an adjusting instrument" was invented by Anne Catharina Martha Bekker (Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands), Bastiaan Bartjan Maat (Groot-Ammers, Netherlands), Tom Adriaan Jansen (Utrecht, Netherlands), Alex Lorier (Zoetermeer, Netherlands), Paulus Gerardus Maria Van Stiphout (Woerden, Netherlands) and Paul Michael Wolber (Woerden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive component comprising a first rotation part and a second rotation part arranged to rotate together around a common centr...