ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,788, issued on March 18, was assigned to MUI LAB INC. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Product with incorporated operation display panel" was invented by Kazunori Oki (Kyoto, Japan), Nobuyasu Hirobe (Kyoto, Japan), Fumiaki Shibayama (Kyoto, Japan), Shinji Horii (Kyoto, Japan), Takanori Yamamoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Makoto Nomura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a product with an operation display panel incorporated therein, which naturally harmonizes with the environment to not create visual noise for a user and allow the user to operate the operation display panel intuitively while feeling a natural materia...