US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 28 for "Electronic device with modular accessories" (American, Singaporean, Ukrainian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,402, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Electronic device with modular accessories" was invented by Rafal Piersiak (Belmont, Calif.), John Roos (Los Gatos, Calif.), Matthew J. England (Santa Monica, Calif.), Oleksii Shekolian (Kyiv, Ukraine), Eric S. Micko (San Jose, Calif.), Sonny Windstrup Rasmussen (Singapore), Samuel Lee (Los Angeles) and Dan Gilbert Allen (Springville, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a first housing, a camera residing at least partially within the first housing, a switch residing at least partially within the first housing, and a second housing coupled t...