ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,094, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Event detection device" was invented by Kiyoshi Makigawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Norio Shoji (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yusuke Ikeda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Event detection devices are disclosed. in one example, an event detection device includes a photodiode that generates a photoelectric conversion current, a conversion transistor that converts the photoelectric conversion current into a voltage and outputs the voltage from a gate, an amplification transistor that amplifies a voltage between a gate having a potential according to the ph...