US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Aug. 5 for "Light receiving element and light receiving device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,738, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light receiving element and light receiving device" was invented by Yuhi Yorikado (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiki Ebiko (Kanagawa, Japan), Suzunori Endo (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuhiro Kawai (Kanagawa, Japan), Fumihiko Koga (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuo Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Sozo Yokogawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hayato Wakabayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light receiving element including: a semiconductor substrate; a photoelectric conversion unit (PD) in the semiconductor substrate that converts light into electric charges; a first elec...