US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Nov. 18 for "Light reception device and distance measurement device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,451, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light reception device and distance measurement device" was invented by Osamu Ozawa (Tokyo) and Hayato Kamizuru (Kagoshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light reception device comprises a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels including a photosensitive element configured to generate a signal in response to detection of a photon by the photosensitive element, wherein the plurality of pixels include a first pixel having a first sensitivity to detect a first photon incident on the first pixel an...