ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,725, issued on April 21, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Light receiving device and range-finding device" was invented by Kenichi Tayu (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light receiving device according to an embodiment includes: a light receiving element (1000) in which a current flows because of avalanche multiplication caused in accordance with a photon that has been incident on the light receiving element in a state in which the light receiving element is charged to a predetermined potential based on a bias voltage, the light receiving element returning to said state by a rec...