US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on June 17 for "Photodetector comprising avalanche photodiodes and first region surrounding avalanche photodiodes" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,314, issued on June 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Photodetector comprising avalanche photodiodes and first region surrounding avalanche photodiodes" was invented by Yuki Sugiura (Osaka, Japan) and Akito Inoue (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state image sensor includes at least two or more APDs formed on a substrate. First regions are arranged outside the APDs as viewed in plane. Adjacent ones of the APDs and the first regions are separated from each other through a separation region. A first voltage V21 is applied to a fourth semiconductor layer of the AP...