US Patent Issued to Corephotonics on July 28 for "Compact folded camera structure" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,580, issued on July 28, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Compact folded camera structure" was invented by Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itay Yedid (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gil Bachar (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Noy Cohen (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Folded cameras and dual folded-upright cameras that reduce a mobile electronic device and specifically a smartphone bump footprint and height. In some examples, the bump footprint is reduced by reducing the height of a back focal plane section of the folded camera. In some examples, the bump footprint is reduced by ...