Apple granted patent for periscope camera module that would give future iPhones 3x optical 'zoom'

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Apple a patent relating to a periscope camera system that we could one day see inside an iPhone. UPSTO patent number 11,061,213 lays out the framework for a folded camera system that uses a pair of prisms, a lens array and an image sensor to create a telephoto-style camera system, complete with autofocus and/or optical image stabilization. This kind of 'periscope' camera module is nothing new in the smartphone world as Samsumg, Xi...