ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,019, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light receiving device and light receiving circuit" was invented by Noboru Sakimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Fumihiko Hanzawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasunori Tsukuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Object]Provided are a light receiving device and a light receiving circuit that are capable of performing highly accurate ranging with an increased field of view (FOV).[Solving Means]A light receiving device according to the present disclosure includes a light detector array including a plurality of pixels each configured to output a pu...