ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,384, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).

"Detection device, display device, and illumination device with detection function" was invented by Tadayoshi Katsuta (Tokyo) and Yoshitaka Ozeki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a detection device includes a substrate and a plurality of photodiodes arranged on the substrate. Each of the photodiodes comprises a p-type semiconductor layer, an i-type semiconductor layer, and an n-type semiconductor layer stacked on the substrate. Each of the photodiodes includes a plurality of first regions in each of which the p-type semiconductor laye...