ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,920, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Primax Electronics Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Access control device with photographing angle adjustment function" was invented by Yung-Ming Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsing-Fang Yeh (Taipei, Taiwan), Chuan-Rung Sung (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ching-Lun Hsiao (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access control device includes a main body, a rotating mechanism, a camera module, a first driving motor and a second driving motor. The rotating mechanism includes a first rotating shaft and a second rotating shaft. The rotating mechanism is pivotally coupled to the main body through the second rotating...