US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on June 17 for "Light receiving element and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,312, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light receiving element and electronic apparatus" was invented by Yasuhisa Tochigi (Kanagawa, Japan), Taiichiro Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Fumihiko Koga (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a light receiving element and an electronic apparatus that prevent generation of a false signal due to light emission caused by a circuit. The light receiving element includes a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels includes: a photoelectric conversion layer that photoelectrically converts incident light; a sign...