US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Feb. 3 for "Pixel substrate and light receiving apparatus" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,980, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Pixel substrate and light receiving apparatus" was invented by Tohid Moradi Khanshan (Stuttgart, Germany) and Naoki Kawazu (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel substrate includes a photoelectric conversion element. The photoelectric conversion element includes a doped region and a substrate region. The doped region and the substrate region form a pn junction. A pixel circuit is electrically connected to a first supply line and the photoelectric conversion element. A protection circuit is configured to short-circuit the fir...