US Patent Issued to SAGEMCOM BROADBAND on May 20 for "Detection of camera lens cover position by backlighting" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,516, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS (Bois-Colombes, France).

"Detection of camera lens cover position by backlighting" was invented by Hugo Chusseau (Bois-Colombes, France), Radu Nedelcu (Bois-Colombes, France) and Alexandre Marton (Bois-Colombes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus having: a casing; an image capture device; a movable shutter movably mounted in such a way that when the movable shutter is in a working position, the image capture device sees the exterior of the casing, and when the shutter is in a rest position, the movable shutter blocks the exterior of the casing fo...