ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,680, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Celestial AI Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-chip electro-photonic network" was invented by Philip Winterbottom (San Jose, Calif.) and Martinus Bos (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide for computational systems including multiple circuit packages, each circuit package comprising an electronic integrated circuit having multiple processing elements and intra-chip bidirectional photonic channels connecting the processing elements into an electro-photonic network, with inter-chip bidirectional photonic channels connecting the processing elements across the...