ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,882, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical detection device including initialization circuit configured to improve detection accuracy" was invented by Tadayoshi Katsuta (Tokyo) and Yoshitaka Ozeki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device includes a plurality of detection elements that are arranged in a matrix having a row-column configuration in a detection area, and each comprise a photoelectric conversion element to which a reverse bias voltage is configured to be applied when detection is performed, and an initialization circuit configured to apply an initialization voltage highe...