US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 27 for "Photoelectric conversion device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,268, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device" was invented by Masayuki Tsuchiya (Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiro Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Yasuharu Ota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes a photodiode configured to perform avalanche multiplication, a recharging circuit configured to perform a recharging operation to bring the photodiode after the avalanche multiplication into a state in which the avalanche multiplication can be performed again based on a first control signal including pulses that periodically repeat transitions from a first level to a...