US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Nov. 3 for "Distance measurement system and photodetection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,518, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Distance measurement system and photodetection device" was invented by Takeshi Ohkawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akito Sekiya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distance measurement systems and devices that optimize avalanche photodiode bias voltage are disclosed. In one example, a distance measurement system a light emitting device that emits distance measurement light, and a photodetection device that receives reflected light of the distance measurement light. The photodetection device includes a pixel array with a plurality of pixe...