ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,516, issued on June 24, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Lens stack with replaceable outer lens" was invented by Ingrid Cotoros (San Mateo, Calif.) and Ian Griggs (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for replaceable outer lenses. For example, an image capture device may include a lens barrel in a body of the image capture device, the lens barrel including multiple inner lenses; a replaceable lens structure that is mountable on the body of the image capture device, the replaceable lens structure including an outer lens and a retaining ring configured to fasten the outer lens i...