US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 9 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus and photoelectric conversion system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,635, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus and photoelectric conversion system" was invented by Hiroshi Sekine (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Morimoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Junji Iwata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a semiconductor layer having an avalanche photodiode, and a wiring structure electrically connected to the semiconductor layer. In a plan view, the photoelectric conversion apparatus comprises a pixel region including the avalanche photodiode, and a peripheral region located between the pixel region and an outer edge of th...