ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,435, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device, control method, and storage medium with image correction processing" was invented by Aihiko Numata (Tokyo) and Kan Takaiwa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a photoelectric conversion device that has an avalanche photodiode and can suppress image quality deterioration, in a photoelectric conversion device, a photoelectric conversion element including an avalanche photodiode for photoelectrically converting an optical image, an image generation unit configured to generate a first image based on a signal acquired by the photoele...