US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Oct. 7 for "Light receiving element, distance measurement module, and electronic equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,718, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light receiving element, distance measurement module, and electronic equipment" was invented by Yutaro Komuro (Nagasaki, Japan), Yoshiki Ebiko (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hajime Yamagishi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a light receiving element, a distance measurement module, and electronic equipment which are capable of reducing leakage of incident light to adjacent pixels. A light receiving element includes a semiconductor layer in which photodiodes performing photoelectric conversion of infrared...