US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on June 16 for "Distance measurement device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,460, issued on June 16, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Distance measurement device" was invented by Satoshi Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a distance measurement device capable of performing signal processing such as distance measurement with high speed and low power consumption.A distance measurement device includes: a first semiconductor element including a first light-reception section that receives light and performs photoelectric conversion to generate an electric signal; a second semiconductor element including a distance calculation section that perfor...