ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,309, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Low profile lens adapter with folded optics" was invented by Ian Copeland Griggs (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens adapter is attached to an image capture device to lower the profile of the image capture device when mounted to a mounting device. The lens adapter includes a lens that refracts light incident from an outer lens of the lens adapter into collimated light. The lens adapter includes an optical device that alters the direction of the collimated light and directs the collimated light to an image capture device lens assembly."
The patent...