US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Dec. 30 for "Photon counting device, photon counting method, and photon counting processing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,432, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Photon counting device, photon counting method, and photon counting processing program" was invented by Takafumi Higuchi (Hamamatsu, Japan), Teruo Takahashi (Hamamatsu, Japan), Mao Nakajima (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Katsuhiro Nakamoto (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photon counting device includes: a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element and an amplifier amplifying charge to which input light is converted by the photoelectric conversion element and converting the amplified charge to a voltage; an A/D c...