ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,236, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Photodetection device" was invented by Yasuji Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Qing Ding (Kanagawa, Japan) and Noam Zeev Eshel (Pardessia, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved image quality in photodetection devices that count pulses with a counter is disclosed. In one example, a first sensor unit generates a first pulse signal in response to incidence of photons. A second sensor unit generates a second pulse signal in response to incidence of photons. A first counter counts a count value in synchronization with one of a plurality of sign...