US Patent Issued to GoPro on Oct. 20 for "Replaceable lens element of a fisheye lens" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,097, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Replaceable lens element of a fisheye lens" was invented by Peiqian Zhao (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jonathan Stern (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture device with a series of elements, a forward element, and a sensor assembly. The series of elements are aligned along an optical axis and have a field of view of about 180 degrees or more. The forward element removably covers the series of elements, wherein the forward element is curved and configured to capture the field of view of about 180 degrees or more and provide optical power...