ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,197, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device and photoelectric conversion system" was invented by Yasuhiro Oguro (Tokyo) and Daisuke Kobayashi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes a first substrate including a pixel array portion, in which a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions is arranged in a two-dimensional array shape in planar view, and a first wiring pattern, and a second substrate including a machine learning portion configured to perform processing of a signal obtained from electric charge generated by the photoelect...