US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Dec. 16 for "Light reception device and distance measurement device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,464, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light reception device and distance measurement device" was invented by Kumiko Mahara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light reception device according to an embodiment includes: a light receiving unit including a plurality of light receiving elements arranged in a matrix array; and a plurality of read lines that transmits each of signals read from the plurality of light receiving elements. In the light reception device, each of the plurality of read lines is connected to two or more light receiving elements among the plura...