ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,622, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Peak Design (San Francisco).
"Camera clutch system" was invented by Dane Jones (San Francisco), Arthur Viger (San Francisco) and Matthew Thomas James (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera clutch system with a camera plate configured to transiently mount to a camera and a coupled to the camera plate and configured to attach to a camera body or the camera plate to form an opening or loop sized to accept less than four fingers of a user to secure a camera mounted to the camera plate to the user is provided."
The patent was filed on April 19, 2023, under Application No. 18/303,140...