ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,648, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Folded camera with continuously adaptive zoom factor" was invented by Rami Boltanski (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Roy Rudnick (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Folded Tele cameras comprising an optical path folding element (OPFE) for folding a first optical path OP1 to a second optical path OP2, a lens including N=8 lens elements, the lens being divided into three lens groups numbered, in order from an object side of the lens, G1, G2 and G3, and an image sensor, wherein G1 and G3 are included in a single G13 c...