US Patent Issued to DISNEY ENTERPRISES on April 7 for "Trigger for camera trap" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,371, issued on April 7, was assigned to DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Trigger for camera trap" was invented by Thomas John O'Brien (Silver Spring, Md.), Eric Berkenpas (Rockville, Md.), Charles Michael Shepard (Silver Spring, Md.) and Eric Daniel Flynn (Dickerson, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for capturing fames (e.g., images) in an environment. In one example, a system includes a main camera configured to capture target images or frames of the environment and a trigger in communication with the main camera and configured to selectively activate the main camera. The trigger includes a trigger c...