US Patent Issued to Canon on April 22 for "Comparator, photoelectric conversion device, and apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,926, issued on April 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Comparator, photoelectric conversion device, and apparatus" was invented by Hideo Kobayashi (Tokyo) and So Hasegawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A comparator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first differential transistor and a second differential transistor forming a differential pair, a first load transistor and a second load transistor respectively provided corresponding to the first differential transistor and the second differential transistor, and a first cascode transistor connected in cascode between the first differe...