ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,942, issued on July 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Camera integration for portable electronic devices" was invented by Keith J. Hendren (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Adam T. Garelli (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Alex J. Lehmann (Redwood City, Calif.) and Dinesh C. Mathew (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable electronic device can have a housing including a wall, the wall at least partially defining an external surface, and the housing defining an aperture disposed opposite the wall. A display assembly can be positioned at the aperture and a retention component can be positioned at least partially in an inter...