ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,826, issued on April 29, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for sharing media items capturing subjects" was invented by David Newman (San Diego), Timothy David Bucklin (San Diego), Otto Sievert (Oceanside, Calif.) and Luc Sargent (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media items (e.g., images, videos) may be captured by one or more image capture devices. One or more of the media items may be identified as including/likely including depiction of a user based on proximity of capture of the media item(s) in time and location to the user. The identified media item(s) may be provided to the use...