US Patent Issued to CANON on June 2 for "Photoelectric conversion device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,253, issued on June 2, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device" was invented by Hiromasa Tsuboi (Tokyo) and Jumpei Ashida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a photoelectric conversion device, a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion unit are arranged so as to be aligned in a first direction in a plan view with respect to a substrate, the sensitivity of a third photoelectric conversion unit is lower than the sensitivity of the first photoelectric conversion unit and lower than the sensitivity of the second photoelectric conversion unit, and the third photoe...