ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,644, issued on April 21, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light receiving element, distance measurement module, and electronic equipment including a reflection film" was invented by Yutaro Komuro (Nagasaki, Japan), Yoshiki Ebiko (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoharu Ogita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a light receiving element, a distance measurement module, and electronic equipment which are capable of reducing leakage of incident light to adjacent pixels. The light receiving element includes an on-chip lens, a wiring layer, and a semiconductor layer...