ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,412, issued on June 17, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Compact folded Tele cameras" was invented by Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel), Nadav Goulinski (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Michael Scherer (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ziv Shemesh (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Folded digital cameras, comprising a lens with Nless than=3 lens elements Li and having an EFL, an aperture diameter DA, a f-number f/ #, a TTL, and a BFL, wherein each lens element has a respective focal length fi and wherein a first lens element L1 faces an object side and a last lens element LN faces an i...