ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,116, issued on Nov. 25, 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: "An image capture device includes a lens barrel having a first end and a second end opposite the first end; one or more inner lenses disposed within the lens barrel; a retaining ring configured to rotatably mount to and be removed from the lens barrel or a body of the image capture device at the first end of the lens barrel; an outer lens configured to be secured by the retaining ring in a position covering the fi...