ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,431, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Corephontonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Slim pop-out tele camera lenses" was invented by Itamar Boral (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ziv Shemesh (Tel Aviv, Israel), Asaf Pellman (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lens systems for compact digital cameras having a pop-out state and a collapsed state, the lens systems comprising: an image sensor having a sensor diagonal SD, and a lens with Nless than=6 lens elements L1-LN arranged along a lens optical axis (OA) starting with L1 from an object side toward an image side, each lens element Li having a respe...