ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,230, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Optical-path folding-element with an extended two degree of freedom rotation range" was invented by Itay Yedid (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gil Bachar (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gal Barak (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yiftah Kowal (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Actuators for rotating an optical-path-folding-element with two, first and second, degrees of freedom in an extended rotation range around two respective rotation axes, folded cameras including such actuators and dual-cameras including a folded camera as above togeth...