ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,319, issued on March 3, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Slim pop-out wide camera lenses and pop-out camera actuators" was invented by Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel), Michael Dror (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yiftah Kowal (Tel Aviv, Israel), Oriel Grushka (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itamar Boral (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Nadav Goulinski (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Passive pop-out cameras for incorporation in foldable mobile electronic devices such as smartphones, lens systems for such cameras, and pop-out actuators, in some examples passive and in some examples based on shape memory alloys, for actuatin...