US Patent Issued to Canon on March 11 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus, imaging system, movable object, and semiconductor substrate" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,482, issued on March 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus, imaging system, movable object, and semiconductor substrate" was invented by Kazuhiro Morimoto (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a photodiode, a generation circuit, a first control circuit, and a second control circuit. The photodiode is configured to perform avalanche multiplication. The generation circuit is configured to generate a control signal. The first control circuit is configured to be controlled by the control signal to be in a standby state where the avalanche multi...