US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Aug. 25 for "Photon counting device and photon counting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,051, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Photon counting device and photon counting method" was invented by Tadashi Maruno (Hamamatsu, Japan), Eiji Toda (Hamamatsu, Japan), Mao Nakajima (Hamamatsu, Japan), Teruo Takahashi (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Takafumi Higuchi (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photon counting device includes a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element configured to convert input light to charge, and an amplifier configured to amplify the charge converted by the photoelectric conversion element and convert the charge to a voltag...