ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,927, issued on March 4, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Multi-aperture cameras with at least one two state zoom camera" was invented by Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Roy Rudnick (Tel Aviv, Israel), Michael Dror (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gil Bachar (Tel Aviv, Israel), Emil Bronstein (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Itay Yedid (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-cameras and in particular dual-cameras comprising a Wide camera comprising a Wide lens and a Wide image sensor, the Wide lens having a Wide effective focal length EFLW and a folded Tele camera comprising a Tele...