US Patent Issued to Contour IP Holding on July 1 for "Image orientation control for a portable digital video camera" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,843, issued on July 1, was assigned to Contour IP Holding LLC (Provo, Utah).

"Image orientation control for a portable digital video camera" was invented by Jason Green (Seattle), Marc Barros (Bellevue, Wash.), David Thorpe (Portland, Ore.), Chunshik Kim (Portland, Ore.), Felix Ballerstedt (Portland, Ore.), David Randall Knaub (Portland, Ore.), Oved Valadez (Portland, Ore.), Peter Kettenring (Reinhem, Germany), Margaret Novotny (Greenbrae, Calif.), Laura O'Donnell (El Segundo, Calif.) and Jeff Howard (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated hands-free, point of view, action-sports, digital video camera (or camcorder...