ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,705, issued on July 21, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Folded macro-tele camera lens designs" was invented by Noy Cohen (Tel Aviv, Israel), Roy Rudnick (Tel Aviv, Israel), Michael Dror (Tel Aviv, Israel), Nadav Goulinski (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Folded digital cameras comprising a lens system with a lens and an image sensor, the lens having Nless than=6 lens elements Li, an effective focal length (EFL) and a total track length (TTL), wherein each lens element has a respective focal length fi and wherein a first lens element L1 faces an object s...