US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Jan. 20 for "Light receiving element, optical device, and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,557, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light receiving element, optical device, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Takafumi Takatsuka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuki Hizu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light receiving element capable of reducing at least either power consumption or a dead time while reducing an input voltage to a readout circuit is proposed. There is provided a light receiving element (200) including a photon response multiplication part (210) that includes a charge multiplication region capable of multiplying a charge generated in respons...