US Patent Issued to CANON on Feb. 17 for "Photoelectric conversion device and photodetection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,843, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device and photodetection system" was invented by Satoru Mikajiri (Gunma, Japan), Atsushi Furubayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Mayu Ishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroshi Yoshioka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel, the pixel including an avalanche photodiode, and a signal processing circuit including a counter configured to generate a count value based on a photon incident on the avalanche photodiode during a count period, the signal processing circuit being configured to output the count va...