US Patent Issued to Apple on March 24 for "Camera including two light folding elements" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,091, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Camera including two light folding elements" was invented by Yuhong Yao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system includes a first light folding element (e.g., a prism), a second light folding element (e.g., another prism or a mirror), and a lens system located between the first light folding element and the second light folding element. In some cases, the lens system includes a lens stack having either four or five lens elements with refractive power. The first light folding element redirects light from an object field from a first ax...