ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,720, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Interchangeable lens structures" was invented by Ingrid Cotoros (San Mateo, Calif.), Ian Griggs (San Francisco) and Peiqian Zhao (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for replaceable outer lenses for use in water. For example, an image capture device may include a lens barrel in a body of the image capture device; a replaceable lens structure mountable on the body of the image capture device, the replaceable lens structure including a first set of two or more stacked lenses, including a first outer lens, and a fi...