ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,545, issued on June 10, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Large-aperture compact scanning tele cameras" was invented by Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yiftah Kowal (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itamar Boral (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ziv Shemesh (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scanning Tele cameras (STCs) based on two optical path folding element (OPFE) field-of-view scanning and mobile devices including such STCs. A STC may comprise a first OPFE (O-OPFE) for folding a first optical path OP1 to a second optical path OP2, an O-OPFE actuator, a second OPFE (I-OPFE) for fo...