ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,741, issued on March 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Password prompt for secure camera activation" was invented by Mahendra Gupta (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes detecting that a camera cover switch has been activated to open a cover of a camera of a computing system, the opening of the cover activating the camera for use. In response, prompting a user of the computing system to enter authorization user input that indicates the user is authorized to use the camera. Waiting a predetermined amount of time to receive the predefined user input. In response to not re...