US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Jan. 20 for "Ranging image sensor and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,795, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Ranging image sensor and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Mitsuhito Mase (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 ranging image sensor includes a semiconductor layer and an electrode layer. The semiconductor layer and the electrode layer form a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels includes an avalanche multiplication region, a charge distri...