US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on July 1 for "Light receiving device and distance measuring device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,494, issued on July 1, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light receiving device and distance measuring device" was invented by Koji Neya (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akira Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light receiving device (3) includes a first circuit substrate (10) and a second circuit substrate (20). An avalanche photodiode (APD) (101) and a protection element (130) that protects the APD (101) are disposed on the first circuit substrate (10). The second circuit substrate (20) is stacked on the first circuit substrate (10), and a signal processing circuit that processes a ...