US Patent Issued to CANON on May 20 for "Photoelectric conversion device and method of driving photoelectric conversion device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,514, issued on May 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device and method of driving photoelectric conversion device" was invented by Shuhei Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kento Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Onuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Hajime Ikeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Kobayashi (Saitama, Japan), Takenori Kobuse (Kanagawa, Japan), Taro Takita (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoki Ishikawa (Chiba, Japan), Yusuke Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Kamikura (Tokyo) and Shigeharu Aoki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes pixels each including a photoelectric con...