ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,698, issued on June 23, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Modular action camera lens assembly and mounting system" was invented by Jonathan Stern (San Mateo, Calif.) and Peiqian Zhao (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Modular lens assemblies and mounting systems are disclosed. A modular lens assembly includes a removable portion and a fixed portion. The removable portion includes a first lens stack configured to produce a near-collimated ray path or a collimated ray path. The fixed portion includes a second lens stack configured to receive the near-collimated ray path or the collimated ray path from ...