US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Sept. 30 for "Photodetector, driving method of photodetector, and distance measuring device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,566, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Photodetector, driving method of photodetector, and distance measuring device" was invented by Keitarou Amagawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photodetector of the present disclosure includes multiple pixels including a light receiving element, and a sampling circuit that is provided corresponding to the multiple pixels, and samples light reception data output from the pixel on the basis of multiple clock signals having different phases, in synchronization with input of a trigger signal. The sampling circuit switches th...