ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,146, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Thin dual-aperture zoom digital camera" was invented by Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-aperture zoom camera comprising a Wide camera with a respective Wide lens and a Tele camera with a respective Tele lens, the Wide and Tele cameras mounted directly on a single printed circuit board, wherein the Wide and Tele lenses have respective effective focal lengths EFLW and EFLT and respective total track lengths TTLW and TTLT and wherein TTLW/EFLWless than1.1 and TTLT/EFLTgreater than1...