US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 28 for "Pan-tilt device that reduces backlash effects" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,937, issued on July 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Pan-tilt device that reduces backlash effects" was invented by Chia-Wei Chan (Taipei, Taiwan), Chia-Wei Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Matthew J. England (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a motor having one or more gears and a shaft operably coupled to the one or more gears. The shaft actuates to adjust a field of view (FoV) of a camera. The apparatus further includes a bracket having a passage in which the shaft is at least partially disposed, and a channel. A spring is at least partially disposed with the channel of the ...