ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,689, issued on June 3, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).
"Lighted camera apparatus" was invented by Monica Xu (Cambridge, Mass.), Shelby Poon (Quincy, Mass.) and Shekhar Sastry (Arlington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a device includes an image sensor and a light source positioned relative to the image sensor so that light from the light source is reflected away from the image sensor by first objects that are within a field of view of the image sensor, the first objects being positioned less than a selected distance from the image sensor. In an example, the device further includes at least one processor...