ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,639, issued on March 25, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Compact folded camera" was invented by Itay Jerby (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itay Yedid (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gal Avivi (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gil Bachar (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Folded cameras comprising a movable lens having a lens optical axis and positioned in an optical path between an optical path folding element (OPFE) and an image sensor, wherein the OPFE folds light from a first direction to a second direction, the second direction being substantially along th...