ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. RE50,911, issued on June 9, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"High resolution thin multi-aperture imaging systems" was invented by Gal Shabtay (Tel Aviv, Israel), Noy Cohen (Tel Aviv, Israel), Oded Gigushinski (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-aperture imaging system comprising a first camera with a first sensor that captures a first image and a second camera with a second sensor that captures a second image, the two cameras having either identical or different FOVs. The first sensor may have a standard color filter array (CFA) covering one sensor section ...