ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,762, issued on July 22, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Folded camera structure with an extended light- folding-element scanning range" was invented by Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gil Bachar (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itay Jerby (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itay Yedid (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yonatan Mandel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Noy Cohen (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Voice coil motor (VCM) actuators for rotating an optical path folding element (OPFE) over an extended scanning range relative to a scanning/rotation range needed for optical image stabilization (OIS)."

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