US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on July 28 for "Ranging sensor and ranging module" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,391, issued on July 28, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Ranging sensor and ranging module" was invented by Sozo Yokogawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ranging sensor includes a pixel including a photoelectric conversion element, a first storage node and a second storage node that store charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion element, a first transfer gate and a second transfer gate connected to the photoelectric conversion element so as to branch and transfer the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion element to different paths, a third transfer gate co...