US Patent Issued to CANON KAUBUSHIKI on June 16 for "Photoelectric conversion device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,624, issued on June 16, was assigned to CANON KAUBUSHIKI KAISHA (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device" was invented by Toshiki Tsuboi (Tokyo) and Yu Maehashi (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes: a photon detection element configured to generate a light reception pulse signal according to incident light; a control unit configured to control a light emission pulse pattern of a light source, a light emission timing of the light source, and a gating period with respect to the light emission timing; a gating unit configured to output a light reception pulse pattern of the incident...