ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,393, issued on April 7, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Image capture device with interchangeable integrated sensor-optical component assemblies" was invented by Ingrid A. Cotoros (Hillsborough, Calif.), Nicholas D. Woodman (Big Sky, Mont.), Sandor Lee Barna (Los Altos, Calif.) and Jonathan Stern (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture device includes an image capture module and a base module. The image capture module is releasably connectable to the base module. The image capture module includes an integrated image sensor and optical component for capturing image data. The base module incl...