ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,705, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Dynamic image dimension adjustment" was invented by Vincent Vacquerie (Longnes, France) and Nicolas Rahmouni (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer accesses a feed of image frames from a camera. The computer determines, based on at least a first image frame from the feed, electronic image stabilization (EIS) data, and internal motion unit (IMU) data, a future image height. The computer enables or disables, for at least a second image frame from the feed, image lines on a sensor of the camera to obtain the determined future image height."

The patent wa...