US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 30 for "Photoelectric conversion device, photoelectric conversion system, moving body, and manufacturing method of photoelectric conversion device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,514,016, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device, photoelectric conversion system, moving body, and manufacturing method of photoelectric conversion device" was invented by Kosei Uehira (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device having pixels lined up in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, the photoelectric conversion device including: a semiconductor layer which has a front surface and a rear surface and which includes an avalanche photodiode; a wiring layer arranged on a side of the front surface of the semiconductor layer; and a trench arranged in...