ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,062, issued on July 8, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Slim pop-out wide camera lenses" was invented by Roy Rudnick (Tel Aviv, Israel), Nadav Goulinski (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pop-out lens systems for compact digital cameras, comprising an image sensor and a lens with a field of view FOVless than60 deg and having i lens elements L1-Li starting with L1 from an object side toward an image side, each lens element Li having a respective focal length fi,, the lens elements divided into two lens groups G1 and G2 separat...