ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,969, issued on May 13, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Modular camera with interchangeable image head and sub-system bases" was invented by Adrian Santos (Lake Forest, Calif.), Nicholas Vitale (Foster City, Calif.) and Joseph Tucker (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teachings provide an image head with a housing, an integrated sensor and lens assembly (ISLA), a port, and componentry. The housing has a front side a rear side located opposite the front side; a top side located between the front side and the rear side; and a bottom side located opposite the top side and between the front sid...