ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,509, issued on April 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Reversible chargeable camera and dock with rear wall privacy" was invented by Jace W. Files (Round Rock, Texas), John Trevor Morrison (Round Rock, Texas) and Brandon J. Brocklesby (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera integrates a magnet at one end of a housing to magnetically attract and attach the camera to a front side of a peripheral display, such as to support a video conference through an information handling system interfaced with the display. A camera dock couples to a top side of the display and includes a back privacy suppo...