US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on June 23 for "Optical sensing circuit and method for driving optical sensing circuit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,177, issued on June 23, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Optical sensing circuit and method for driving optical sensing circuit" was invented by Eiji Kanda (Yasu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensing circuit includes a light detection circuit, a differential circuit, and a controller. The light detection circuit includes a photodiode with a cathode electrode and a first amplifier transistor with a gate electrode connected to the cathode electrode. The light detection circuit outputs a voltage corresponding to a voltage at the gate electrode of the first amplifier transistor. The differential circuit d...