ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,651, issued on April 8, was assigned to Suunto Oy (Vantaa, Finland).

"System and method for remote activation of a storage operation of pictorial information" was invented by Ewa Pulkkinen (Vantaa, Finland), Bjorn Bornemann (Vantaa, Finland), Teemu Maikkola (Vantaa, Finland), Maria Pekkarinen (Vantaa, Finland), Michael Miettinen (Vantaa, Finland), Mikko Ahlstrom (Vantaa, Finland) and Erik Lindman (Vantaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system and method for remote activation of a storage operation of pictorial information. According to the invention, it involves a wearable sensor device, comprising ...