ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,105, issued on April 8, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Scanning Tele camera based on two prism field of view scanning" was invented by Itay Yedid (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Roy Rudnick (Tel Aviv, Israel), Nadav Goulinski (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tal Korman (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yiftah Kowal (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scanning Tele cameras (STCs) based on two optical path folding element (OPFE) field-of-view scanning and mobile devices including such STCs. A STC may comprise a first OPFE (O-OPFE) for folding a first optical path OP1 to a second optical path OP2...