ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,070, issued on March 31, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Detector and detection system" was invented by Kazutaka Osawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takanori Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector includes a plurality of first pixels, a signal wiring group, a first wiring, and a control portion. The plurality of first pixels are arranged in a column direction. The signal wiring group is disposed in a first wiring layer. The signal wiring group includes a plurality of signal wirings adjacent to each other. Signals are respectively outputted from the plurality of first pixels to the plurality of signal wiring...