US Patent Issued to Ricoh on April 21 for "Photoelectric conversion element, photoelectric conversion module, electronic device, and power supply module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,681, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion element, photoelectric conversion module, electronic device, and power supply module" was invented by Takaya Ito (Shizuoka, Japan), Ryota Arai (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tomoya Hirano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion element includes a first electrode (13), a photoelectric conversion layer (16) over the first electrode, and a second electrode (18) over the photoelectric conversion layer. The photoelectric conversion element further includes a surface protection portion (19) adjacent to a face of one electrode selecte...