ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,566, issued on April 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Audio/video recording and communication devices" was invented by Mark D Siminoff (Mountain View, Calif.), Spiro Sacre (Los Angeles), James Siminoff (Pacific Palisades, Calif.), John Modestine (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Elliott Lemberger (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio/video recording and communication device configured as a doorbell has a housing with a support structure and a removable faceplate. A flexible translucent membrane of the faceplate supports a button aligned with a mechanical switch when the removable faceplate is ...