ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,933, issued on May 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus comprising cooling device and image sensor, control method for cooling device based on sensitivity of the image sensor and storage medium" was invented by Go Togashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor, a cooling device configured to cool the image capturing apparatus, a storage unit having stored therein a correspondence relationship between sensitivities of the image sensor and cooling capabilities of the cooling device, and a control unit configured to control an operation of the c...