US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 14 for "Privacy light-emitting diode and control circuit thereof" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,364, issued on July 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Privacy light-emitting diode and control circuit thereof" was invented by Yonatan Moges Beyene (Bellevue, Wash.), Manish K Shah (Redmond, Wash.), Ying Huang (Sammamish, Wash.), Lester Hing Kwok Lao (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Donghwi Kim (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device is provided, including a camera and a privacy light-emitting diode (LED) configured to be illuminated in conjunction with powering of the camera. The computing device further includes an LED control circuit configured to power the camera and t...