US Patent Issued to GoPro on Oct. 6 for "Image capture systems for use in land underwater environments" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,459, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Image capture systems for use in land underwater environments" was invented by Ian Copeland Griggs (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture system that includes an image capture apparatus and at least one optical accessory. The image capture apparatus includes a body and at least one lens that is supported by the body so as to define a field-of-view for the image capture apparatus. The at least one optical accessory is configured to overlie the at least one lens and thereby shift the field-of-view outwardly away from the image capture apparat...