ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,958, issued on May 27, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Interchangeable lens module" was invented by Chao Chen (San Mateo, Calif.), Nicholas Vitale (Foster City, Calif.), Herman Wong (Burlingame, Calif.) and Adrian Santos (Dublin, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture device includes a housing defining a receptacle having a housing electrical interface and a mechanical coupling mechanism coupled to or connected with the housing at a location of the receptacle. The image capture device includes an interchangeable lens module that releases connection with the mechanical coupling mechanism. The interchan...