US Patent Issued to Corephotonics on June 23 for "Zoom dual-aperture camera with folded lens" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,618, issued on June 23, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Zoom dual-aperture camera with folded lens" was invented by Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gal Avivi (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Gil Bachar (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Zoom digital cameras comprising a Wide sub-camera and a folded fixed Tele sub-camera. The folded Tele sub-camera may be auto-focused by moving either its lens or a reflecting element inserted in an optical path between its lens and a respective image sensor. The folded Tele sub-camera is configured to have a low profile to enable its i...