US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on May 20 for "Photodetector, solid-state imaging device, and distance measuring device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,128, issued on May 20, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Photodetector, solid-state imaging device, and distance measuring device" was invented by Motonori Ishii (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photodetector includes a plurality of pixels and a common reset line connected to the pixels, and each of the pixels includes: an avalanche photodiode; a quenching transistor that includes a gate and a source which are connected to the cathode of the avalanche photodiode; and a photodiode reset transistor that includes a source and a drain one of which is connected to the drain ...