ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,838, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo) and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Takashi Miyamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiyuki Akiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Toru Akishita (Tokyo) and Harunaga Hiwatari (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to effectively take measures against erroneous measurement of distance measurement information based on a laser light source. Therefore, a semiconductor device according to the present technology includes an imaging unit including a photoelectric conversion element that receives reflected light of ...