ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,671, issued on May 6, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Slim pop-out cameras and lenses for such cameras" was invented by Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itay Yedid (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tal Korman (Tel Aviv, Israel), Roy Rudnick (Tel Aviv, Israel), Kobi Goldstein (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yiftah Kowal (Tel Aviv, Israel), Michael Dror (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Michael Scherer (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital cameras comprising a lens assembly comprising N lens elements L1-LN starting with L1 on an object side, wherein N is less than=4, an image sensor having a ...