US Patent Issued to ActLight on July 14 for "Photodetector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,886, issued on July 14, was assigned to ActLight SA (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Photodetector" was invented by Takahiro Hamasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Koji Nagahiro (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Ohri (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoe Miyata (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Miura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hisao Yoshimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photodetector including a plurality of photoelectric conversion sections that is provided to a semiconductor substrate. The photoelectric conversion sections each include a first region of a first electrical conduction type that is provided on a first surface side of the semiconductor substrate, a secon...