ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,278, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Corephotonic Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Large aperture continuous zoom folded Tele cameras" was invented by Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Nadav Goulinski (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Folded digital cameras comprising a lens including a plurality of N lens elements marked Li where 1less than equal toiless than equal toN and an optical path folding element (OPFE), wherein a first lens element L1 faces an object side and a last lens element LN faces an image side, wherein at least one of the plurality of lens elements is located at an object side of the OPFE and has ...