ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,647, issued on April 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Privacy screen" was invented by Clement Pierre Nicolas Boissiere (San Francisco) and Timothy R. Oriol (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first device coupled with a first display and an image sensor receives output data from a second device having a second display different from the first display. The output data represents content displayable by the second device on the second display. The first device determines, using the image sensor, a position of the second display relative to the first device and causes the first display to display content...