ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,096, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Optical detection device" was invented by Yuma Jibiki (Tokyo), Shohei Shimada (Tokyo) and Yusuke Otake (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an optical detection device capable of suppressing a fluctuation of a drive starting voltage in a pixel. The optical detection device includes: a semiconductor substrate that has a first surface as a light incident surface and a second surface on an opposite side to the light incident surface; a first pixel that is in the semiconductor substrate and has an avalanche amplification ...