ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,152, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Photodetection device and photodetection system" was invented by Takafumi Takatsuka (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 includes a light-receiving element, and generates a first pulse signal including a pulse corresponding to a result of light reception by the light-receiving element; an adder that generates a second pulse signal by selecting one or more first pulse signals from a plurality of the first pulse s...