ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,780, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AMP Plus Inc. (Vernon, Calif.).
"Toolless click-in or click-out downlight" was invented by Brandon Cohen (Vernon, Calif.) and Ivan Madrigal (Paramount, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overall-assembly of a downlight, with a flangeless trim, and a spackle-frame have complementary structures for repeatably attaching or detaching the downlight to the spackle-frame merely by pushing the downlight into a central hole of the spackle-frame and without use of any external/separate tools. The flangeless trim has some upward protruding members that are configured to removably attached/detached to ...