ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,393, issued on April 7, was assigned to Accord Pacific Europe SA (Lugano, Switzerland).
"Parallel optical computing system" was invented by Luigi Loreti (Rome), Maurizio Vagli (Lugano, Switzerland) and Giovanni Todeschini (Lecco, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parallel optical computing system is described, said system comprising: at least one first module (10) comprising at least one polarization filter (12) and at least one liquid crystal cell (13), the first module (10) being configured as an optical modulator (100) for receiving light from a light source (70) and for encoding the light output from the liquid crystal cell ...