ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,253, issued on May 27, was assigned to simplehuman LLC (Torrance, Calif.).
"Vanity mirror" was invented by Frank Yang (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), David Wolbert (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Joseph Sandor (Newport Beach, Calif.), Orlando Cardenas (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) and Frederick N. Bushroe (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mirror assembly can include a housing, a mirror, and a light source. In certain embodiments, the mirror includes a light pipe configured to emit a substantially constant amount of light along a periphery of the mirror. In some embodiments, the mirror assembly includes a sensor assembly. The sensor...