ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,429, issued on April 22, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Camera housing structure for enhanced manufacture assembly and repair" was invented by Peng Lip Goh (Singapore) and Deeder M. Aurongzeb (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system camera has an extruded aluminum housing that holds an inner frame supporting an image sensor assembled without the use of screws so that the camera readily disassembles to recycle or repair. A planar spring lock holds the camera assembly with flanges that fit into slots of the camera housing to engage the inner frame. The flanges release when a pr...