US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 16 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and moving object" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,729, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and moving object" was invented by Ayman Tarek Abdelghafar (Tokyo) and Kazuhiro Morimoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An avalanche photodiode has a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type and a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, the first semiconductor region being a region where charges having the same polarity as that of signal charges are treated as majority carriers. A separator provided between a first photoelectric conversion element and a se...