US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on May 26 for "Photoelectric conversion device, electromagnetic wave detection device, photoelectric conversion method and electromagnetic wave detection method" (Japanese, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,354, issued on May 26, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Photoelectric conversion device, electromagnetic wave detection device, photoelectric conversion method and electromagnetic wave detection method" was invented by Naoya Kawai (Hamamatsu, Japan), Hideaki Yoshiara (Hamamatsu, Japan), Simon Lehnskov Lange (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Peter Uhd Jepsen (Copenhagen, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a photoelectric conversion device, the potential control unit controls electric potentials applied to the meta-surface. The meta-surface includes a plurality of patterns which are space away from each other...