ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,824, issued on May 27, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Miniature telephoto lens assembly" was invented by Michael Dror (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical lens assembly includes five lens elements and provides a TTL/EFLgreater than1.0. In an embodiment, the focal length of the first lens element f1greater thanTTL/2, an air gap between first and second lens elements is smaller than half the second lens element thickness, an air gap between the third and fourth lens elements is greater than TTL/5 and an air gap betw...