ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,202, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Deletion of content captured by an image capture device" was invented by Grant Adam McCauley (San Mateo, Calif.), Fong Tran (San Mateo, Calif.), Stephen Yui (Oakland, Calif.) and Nicholas Woodman (Big Sky, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture device may start capture of visual content (start video recording) responsive to a particular user interaction with a button of the image capture device. During the capture of the visual content, a different user interaction with the button of the image capture device may be detected. Responsive to the differ...