ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,175, issued on March 24, was assigned to SHENZHEN LEQI INNOVATION Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Camera base plate" was invented by Feng Zhou (Shenzhen, China) and Liuyin Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a camera base plate, which includes a plate body and a wrench. The plate body is defined with a battery avoiding port corresponding to an opening of a battery compartment of a camera. The battery avoiding port extends along a thickness direction of the plate body. The wrench is rotatably connected to the plate body through a damping assembly, and the wrench defines a part of a side ...