US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Jan. 13 for "Light detection device and method for driving light sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,550, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Light detection device and method for driving light sensor" was invented by Mitsuhito Mase (Hamamatsu, Japan), Masaru Nakano (Hamamatsu, Japan), Jun Hiramitsu (Hamamatsu, Japan), Akihiro Shimada (Hamamatsu, Japan), Hiroaki Ishii (Hamamatsu, Japan), Toshinori Ito (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yuma Tanaka (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection device includes a controller that controls electric potentials of a charge collection electrode and a transfer gate electrode so that potential energy in a region immediately below the charg...