ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,651, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Auto focus and optical image stabilization in a compact folded camera" was invented by Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gal Avivi (Tel Aviv, Israel), Michael Dror (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gil Bachar (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itay Jerby (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Itay Yedid (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compact folded camera modules having auto-focus (AF) and optical image stabilization (OIS) capabilities and multi-aperture cameras including such modules. In an embodiment, a folded camera module includes an optic...