ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,129, issued on June 23, was assigned to Vitalchat Inc. (Ashburn, Va.).
"Camera privacy for telemedicine" was invented by Ghafran Abbas (Ashburn, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of camera privacy for telemedicine includes a computing device, a camera comprising a lens, and a cover extending over at least the lens. The cover is communicatively connected to the computing device, and the cover is configurable to be in a first state or a second state. The first state configures the cover to block a field of view of the lens to prevent the camera from capturing visual information from a far side of the cover. The computing devi...