US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on July 7 for "APD sensor and ranging system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,081, issued on July 7, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"APD sensor and ranging system" was invented by Yasunori Tsukuda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Morikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an avalanche photodiode (APD) sensor and a ranging system capable of counting, with high accuracy, a value relating to signals from a plurality of pixels with one counter. The APD according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of pixels each including an APD, a plurality of state detection circuits configured to detect states of a plurality of first signals output from the p...