ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,380, issued on April 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Sensor-based privacy-event detection for a mounted electronic device" was invented by Mark Benjamin Kraz (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Aditya Shailesh Ghadiali (Mountain View, Calif.), Kok Yen Cheng (San Jose, Calif.), Felix Ambroise Etienne Senepin (San Francisco) and Chi-Ming Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensor-based privacy-event detection for a mounted electronic device is described. In aspects, a security system includes a head assembly removably and magnetically coupled to a mounting device having a magnet. The electronic device also ...