ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,524, issued on March 25, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Miniature telephoto lens module and a camera utilizing such a lens module" was invented by Gal Shabtay (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Ephraim Goldenberg (Ashdod, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently disclosed subject matter includes a mobile electronic comprising an integrated camera, comprising a Wide camera unit comprising a Wide lens unit, and a Telephoto camera unit comprising a telephoto lens unit, the telephoto lens unit and the wide lens unit having respectively TTL/EFL ratios smaller and larger than 1 and defining separate telephoto and w...