ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,650, issued on June 10, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Accessory lens structures" was invented by Peiqian Zhao (Mountain View, Calif.), Jonathan Stern (San Mateo, Calif.) and Ingrid A. Cotoros (Hillsborough, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Accessory lens structures for cameras are described. For example, an image capture device may include a mother lens assembly including a first stack of lenses; an image sensor positioned at a first end of the mother lens assembly and configured to detect images based on light incident on the image sensor through the first stack of lenses; a conversion lens assembly including...