US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on March 11 for "Light receiving device and distance measuring device including resistor and transistors between light receiving element and readout circuit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,872, issued on March 11, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light receiving device and distance measuring device including resistor and transistors between light receiving element and readout circuit" was invented by Tatsuki Nishino (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light receiving device according to the present disclosure includes: a light receiving element that generates a signal in response to reception of a photon; a readout circuit that reads out a signal generated by the light receiving element; and a protection circuit that is provided between the light receiving element an...