US Patent Issued to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) on July 21 for "Spiking neural network arrangement for active SPAD imaging" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,844, issued on July 21, was assigned to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Spiking neural network arrangement for active SPAD imaging" was invented by Yang Lin (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Edoardo Charbon (Jouxtens-Mezery, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spiking neural network system for single-photon imaging is disclosed. The system comprises: a light source for emitting a series of light pulses, one pulse per repetition period, for repeatedly illuminating one or more objects; a single-photon detector for detecting photons received from the one or more objects; a ring circuit conne...