US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Sept. 8 for "Photodetection circuit and distance measuring device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,292, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Photodetection circuit and distance measuring device" was invented by Yasunori Tsukuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a photodetection circuit and a distance measuring device. The photodetection circuit includes an avalanche photodiode, a charging circuit that supplies a voltage to the avalanche photodiode, and an input amplifier including a comparison circuit in which a voltage level of an output terminal changes according to a comparison result between a voltage of an input terminal connected to the aval...