ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,914, issued on March 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Camera assembly with concave-shaped front face" was invented by Mark Kraz (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kevin Edward Booth (Mountain View, Calif.), Tyler Scott Wilson (San Francisco), Nicholas Webb (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jason Evans Goulden (Los Gatos, Calif.), William Dong (Redwood City, Calif.), Jeffrey Law (San Francisco), Rochus Jacob (San Francisco), Adam Duckworth Mittleman (Redwood City, Calif.) and Oliver Mueller (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include a video camera assembly that includes: (1) a hou...