ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,747, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Optical artificial neural network system" was invented by Jin Hwa Gene (Daejeon, South Korea) and Suntak Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an optical artificial neural network system which includes a first spatial light modulator modulating an incident light to generate a first light having a first optical image, a concave mirror reflecting the first light to generate a second light having a second optical image, a first polarized beam splitter disposed between the first spatial lig...