ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,119, issued on March 25, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for pre-processing and stabilization of captured image data" was invented by David Newman (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for the pre-processing of image data so as to enhance quality of subsequent encoding and rendering. In one embodiment, a capture device is disclosed that includes a processing apparatus and a non-transitory computer readable apparatus comprising a storage medium have one or more instructions stored thereon. The one or more instructions, when executed by the processing apparatus, are conf...