US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on July 8 for "Light receiving element and light receiving apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,735, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light receiving element and light receiving apparatus" was invented by Yuhi Yorikado (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiki Ebiko (Kanagawa, Japan), Suzunori Endo (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuhiro Kawai (Kanagawa, Japan), Fumihiko Koga (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuo Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Sozo Yokogawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hayato Wakabayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a light receiving element including: a photoelectric conversion unit (PD) that is provided in a semiconductor substrate and converts light into a charge; a first charge accu...