US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on April 22 for "Photodetection device, imaging unit, and distance measurement apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,457, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Photodetection device, imaging unit, and distance measurement apparatus" was invented by Takafumi Takatsuka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photodetection device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a pulse responder, an analog counter part, and a resetter. The pulse responder generates a pulse signal in response to light incidence. The analog counter part generates an analog first count value by performing count processing on the basis of the pulse signal. The resetter resets the first count value...