ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,565, issued on June 24.
"Lens selector" was invented by Cheston Davis (Beaver, Utah) and Tracy Davis (Beaver, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens selector for selectively exposing one camera lens and covering other camera lenses of a cell phone or the like is shown and described. The lens selector comprises a base which grips the cell phone and a lens cover movable between two or more positions. The lens cover may slide along the base when moving between positions. An arm resiliently biased into an engaged positions may lock the lens cover into a selected position on the base. The lens selector may substantially cover that sid...