ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,718, issued on April 22, was assigned to Ningbo SMR Huaxiang Automotive Mirrors Ltd. (Zhejiang Province, China).

"Actuator spherical shell structure, rearview mirror and vehicle" was invented by Liang Zhang (Zhejiang Province, China) and Zhanglong Peng (Zhejiang Province, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an actuator spherical shell structure, rearview mirror and vehicle; the actuator spherical shell structure comprising an actuator spherical shell surface located inside the housing and a housing spherical shell surface located outside the actuator and rotating in coordination with the actuator sphe...