ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,598, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to HJC CORP. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Chin guard pivoting mechanism" was invented by Jin Hwan Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Ki Young Nam (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a chin guard pivoting mechanism, and the chin guard pivoting mechanism (100) according to the present disclosure is provided in a helmet which comprises a helmet body (10), a chin guard (20) pivotally coupled to the helmet body (10), and a shield (30) pivotally coupled to the helmet body (10). When the chin guard (20) is pivoted from the front of a user's chin up to a ...