US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Nov. 18 for "Light receiving element and distance measuring device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,479, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light receiving element and distance measuring device" was invented by Takuya Maruyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yusuke Otake (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a light receiving element capable of lowering the on-voltage of a transfer transistor and suppressing transfer failures at a low on-voltage. The light receiving element includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, each of the plurality of pixels including: a photoelectric conversion unit; first and second charge storage units that store charges generated...