US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Aug. 25 for "Photodetection device and photodetection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,234, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Photodetection device and photodetection system" was invented by Hideki Ozawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takafumi Takatsuka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photodetection device according to the present disclosure includes: a light-receiving section that includes a light-receiving element, and generates a pulse signal including a pulse corresponding to a result of light reception by the light-receiving element; a plurality of switches that is each turned on or off on the basis of a corresponding control signal of a plurality of...