ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,652, issued on June 10, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Folded zoom camera module with adaptive aperture" was invented by Noy Cohen (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Michael Scherer (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems comprising a folded camera that includes a lens module with a native aperture, the lens module having a height HM, an adaptive aperture located between the native aperture and an optical path folding element, and an adaptive aperture forming mechanism for forming the adaptive aperture, wherein the adaptive aperture forming mechanism has a height HA...