ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,915, issued on April 21, was assigned to Chicony Electronics Co. Ltd. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Rotating base and image capturing module" was invented by Yi-Sing Jiang (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Pei-Sheng Tsai (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating base includes a first housing, a second housing, a rotating assembly, an elastic tube and at least one annular elastic member. The rotating assembly is connected between the first housing and the second housing. The elastic tube passes through the rotating assembly and extends from the first housing to the second housing. The annular elastic member is slee...