ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,943, issued on July 1, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Folded camera lens designs" was invented by Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Michael Dror (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itay Yedid (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Gil Bachar (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital cameras, optical lens modules for such digital cameras and methods for assembling lens elements in such lens modules. In various embodiments, the digital cameras comprise an optical lens module including Nless than=3 lens elements Li, each lens element comprising a respective front surface S2i-1 and a respective...