ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,748, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Ad conversion circuit photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and moving body" was invented by Masanori Furuta (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AD conversion circuit includes a plurality of first AD converters, a plurality of voltage holding circuits, a second AD converter, and a selector circuit. Each of the plurality of first AD converters includes a first input terminal. Each of the plurality of first AD converters is a delta-sigma AD converter. Each of the plurality of voltage holding circuits is connected to corresponding ...