US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on April 7 for "Light receiving element and electronic device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,180, issued on April 7, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light receiving element and electronic device" was invented by Yasutaka Fukuda (Kumamoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decrease in sensitivity of distance measurement is reduced. A light receiving element includes a first voltage application unit and a second voltage application unit, a first charge detection unit, and a second charge detection unit. The first voltage application unit and the second voltage application unit are configured in linear shapes extending in the same direction on the surface of the semiconductor substrat...