ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,142, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd . (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Systems for pop-out camera" was invented by Itay Yedid (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yiftah Kowal (Tel Aviv, Israel), Kobi Goldstein (Tel Aviv, Israel), Rami Boltanski (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itay Manor (Tel Aviv, Israel), Daniel Boltinsky (Tel Aviv, Israel), Oriel Grushka (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Vinay Bhus (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a camera module for use in a portable electronic device. The camera module comprises a shiftable lens barrel comprising an objective assembly holdin...