ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,059, issued on June 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Device with rotatable privacy cover" was invented by Marcus-Alan Gilbert (Plano, Texas), Matthew J. England (Santa Monica, Calif.), Shao-Hung Wang (Taipei, Taiwan), Oleksii Krasnoshchok (Kiev, Ukraine), Eric S. Micko (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Kalajian (Calabasas, Calif.), Matthew Glein (Los Angeles) and Te-Chun Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a camera and a privacy cover configured to rotate between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the camera is deactivated and the privacy cover obstruc...