US Patent Issued to Magnolia White on June 23 for "Detection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,311, issued on June 23, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).

"Detection device" was invented by Kaoru Ito (Tokyo), Akihiko Fujisawa (Tokyo) and Daichi Abe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a detection device includes: sensors each of which includes a photodiode configured to detect light and is configured to generate an output corresponding to a degree of the detected light; and a detection circuit configured to receive the output of each sensor. The photodiode has an anode to which a reference potential is applied and a cathode to which a reset potential higher than the reference potential is app...