ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,752, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Replaceable lens module having a spring plate" was invented by Ian Copeland Griggs (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teachings provide an image capture device that includes a lens barrel disposed in a body of the image capture device. A bayonet is coupled to the lens barrel and includes one or more fingers that project outward from the bayonet. The image capture device also includes a replaceable lens module configured to releasably couple to the bayonet. The replaceable lens module includes a retaining ring, a lens positioned in an ope...