US Patent Issued to GoPro on Oct. 7 for "Interconnect mechanisms for use with image capture devices and accessories" (American, Chinese, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,452, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Interconnect mechanisms for use with image capture devices and accessories" was invented by John George Muhlenkamp IV (Brisbane, Calif.), Matthew David Thomas (Castro Valley, Calif.), Huy Phuong Nguyen (Alpine, Utah), Guillaume Abbe (Paris), Bessy Wen-Han Liang (San Jose, Calif.), Zhijun Guo (Shenzhen, China) and Jesse Frost Patterson (Pacifica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of an interconnect mechanism facilitate the connection of an image capture device to an accessory (either directly or indirectly). In one embodiment, the interconne...