ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,569, issued on April 7, was assigned to DAEHAN SOLUTION Co. LTD. (Incheon, South Korea).

"Structure for turning off vanity lamp for vehicle using sun visor" was invented by Choong Ho Kwon (Seoul, South Korea) and Hang Sik Choi (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present invention, magnets are mounted in a button part of a vanity lamp exposed toward a vehicle interior and a portion of a sun visor facing the button part to provide both a repulsive force and an attractive force so that a sun visor returns to a predetermined location with respect to the button part when the sun visor is folded, thereby preventing ...