ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,294, issued on March 24, was assigned to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFENAG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Active dynamic sun visor and method of operation thereof" was invented by Harish Kumar (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including receiving a first position of a sun visor of a vehicle; receiving a route of the vehicle from a navigation system of the vehicle, the route having at least one waypoint; determining a predicted amount of sunlight in an occupant's eyes at the at least one waypoint of the route; determining whether the predicted amount of sunlight in the occupant's eyes at the at least one waypoint of the route is ...