ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,180, issued on March 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Photoelectric conversion device" was invented by Yusuke Onuki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a photoelectric conversion device including a pixel array including a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel includes a photoelectric conversion unit including a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type as a charge accumulation layer and photoelectrically converts incident light to generate a signal in accordance with the incident light, and the second pixel includes a second semiconductor region of the first conductivity type a...