ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,399, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Light receiving device, method for manufacturing light receiving device, and distance measuring module" was invented by Ryota Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a light receiving device that includes a pixel array unit in which pixels each including a first tap that detects charges photoelectrically converted by a photoelectric conversion unit and a second tap that detects charges photoelectrically converted by the photoelectric conversion unit are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix. The light receiving...