US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 11 for "Photoelectric conversion element and photoelectric conversion device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,744, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion element and photoelectric conversion device" was invented by Daiki Shirahige (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yu Maehashi (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion element includes in a semiconductor layer a first semiconductor region arranged, a second semiconductor region arranged on a second face side closer than the first semiconductor region and forming a p-n junction with the first semiconductor region to form an avalanche photodiode, a light guide structure including a first portion surrounding a first region and a secon...