ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,577, issued on June 24, was assigned to ESSENCE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS (HK) Ltd. (Hong Kong) and NEXIGHT INC (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Camera equipment and terminal" was invented by Dongwei Yang (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a piece of camera equipment and a terminal. The camera equipment includes a housing, a camera assembly, a shutter component, and a sensing mechanism. The housing defines an accommodation space; the camera assembly and the shutter component are arranged in the accommodation space. The shutter component defines a through-hole, and the through-hole is configured to enable the came...