US Patent Issued to Canon on June 17 for "Photoelectric conversion element, image pickup element, and image pickup apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,311, issued on June 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion element, image pickup element, and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Satoru Shiobara (Hiratsuka, Japan), Naoki Yamada (Inagi, Japan), Tetsuo Takahashi (Kawasaki, Japan), Jun Kamatani (Tokyo), Yosuke Nishide (Kawasaki, Japan), Hirokazu Miyashita (Ebina, Japan), Tomona Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Hironobu Iwawaki (Yokohama, Japan), Hiroki Ohrui (Kawasaki, Japan), Norifumi Kajimoto (Zama, Japan), Masumi Itabashi (Yamato, Japan) and Kentaro Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion element including an anode, a cathode, and a pho...