US Patent Issued to Intel on June 2 for "Privacy cover slider" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,267, issued on June 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Privacy cover slider" was invented by Mark E. Sprenger (Tigard, Ore.) and Aleksander Magi (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particular embodiments described herein provide for a privacy cover in an electronic device. The electronic device includes a camera facing a first direction towards a user, an illumination source facing a second direction, opposite the first direction, and the privacy slider. The privacy slider includes a camera cover, an illumination source reflector, and an indicator that is illuminated by the illumination source when the c...