US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 28 for "Information handling system camera shutter with external fail safe" (Singaporean, American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,833, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system camera shutter with external fail safe" was invented by Peng Lip Goh (Singapore), Enoch Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Deeder M. Aurongzeb (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable information handling system camera module has a single shutter that slides in response to a single shutter mechanism to manage access for a field of view of both a visual camera and an infrared camera by sliding only between first and second positions, the first position aligning an opening of the shutter with a visual camera and a shield vi...