ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,590, issued on June 30, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Photodetection device and photodetection system" was invented by Yasuji Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photodetection device according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of light-receiving sections that each generates a pulse signal including a pulse corresponding to a result of light reception, a plurality of edge detectors that each generates a detection signal by detecting an edge of the pulse in the pulse signal generated by a corresponding light-receiving section, and an adder that generates a detec...