US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on July 1 for "Light receiving device, ranging system, and light receiving method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,819, issued on July 1, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light receiving device, ranging system, and light receiving method" was invented by Kouta Hiyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Katsuyuki Yonezawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present technology is to provide a light receiving device by which an optical displacement having occurred in a light receiving section during manufacturing and assembling, etc. can be corrected. The light receiving device (10) of the present technology includes a light receiving section (2) including a pixel array (16), and a control section ...