US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on June 10 for "Photosensor and distance measurement system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,960, issued on June 10, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Photosensor and distance measurement system" was invented by Akito Inoue (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photosensor includes: APD regions and a dividing region located between adjacent APD regions. The first semiconductor substrate includes a first primary surface and a second primary surface. An APD in each APD region includes: a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type that is in contact with the first primary surface; and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type opposite to th...