ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,651, issued on May 13, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Pop-out zoom camera" was invented by Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itay Yedid (Tel Aviv, Israel), Roy Rudnick (Tel Aviv, Israel), Michael Dror (Tel Aviv, Israel), Michael Scherer (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ziv Shemesh (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Nadav Goulinski (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cameras with OIS capable of performing multi zoom super macro photography and handheld electronic devices comprising such cameras. A camera may include a lens comprising N lens elements L1-LN divided into two or more lens ...