ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,548, issued on April 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Pixel array having separate voltage supply lines for pixels and bias circuitry" was invented by Yu Arishima (Kanagawa, Japan), Koichiro Iwata (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Kameyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masaki Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel array having aperture pixels arranged so as to form rows and columns, signal lines arranged in the pixel array so as to allow readout of signals from the aperture pixels, current sources connected to the signal lines, a first voltage supply line configured to supply a ...