ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,917, issued on June 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Smart device with switch to enable privacy feature" was invented by Jinshui Liu (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology discloses a security camera that includes a housing and a hardware switch coupled to the housing and an audio component of the security camera. The hardware switch has an ON position and an OFF position. When the hardware switch is in an ON position, the audio component of the camera is operational. When the hardware switch is in an OFF position, the audio component of the camera is non-operational."...