ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,037, issued on June 23, was assigned to DAEHAN SOLUTION Co. LTD. (Incheon, South Korea).

"Assist handle for vehicles" was invented by Choong Ho Kwon (Seoul, South Korea) and Sehwi Lee (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention may provide an assist handle for vehicles manufactured to minimally expose a coat hook to the outside and also feel a sense of unity with the assist handle when the coat hook is not used by configuring the assist handle so that the coat hook is stored in a storage space of the assist handle by elastic support and the coat hook closes an entrance of the storage space, thereby impr...