ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,999, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to simplehuman LLC (Torrance, Calif.).
"Vanity mirror" was invented by Frank Yang (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Ryan Thomas Wong (Los Angeles), Samuel F. Pellicori (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Frederick Nicholas Bushroe (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mirror assembly can include a mirror, a display device, a window configured to provide a view of the display device, and a display region disposed on the front surface of the mirror. The mirror can include a glass layer, a dielectric layer, and a metal layer. In some embodiments, the glass layer is disposed closest to a user. The diel...