US Patent Issued to GoPro on Feb. 17 for "Replaceable lens module having a movable housing for impact force transfer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,182, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Replaceable lens module having a movable housing for impact force transfer" was invented by David Thomas Platner (San Francisco), Ian Copeland Griggs (San Francisco) and Jonathan Stern (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture device includes a lens barrel disposed in a body of the image device, a bayonet, a replaceable lens module that is configured to releasably couple to the bayonet, and a biasing element coupled to the housing or coupled to the bayonet that is configured to bias the housing against the lens barrel. The replaceable le...