ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,785, issued on April 21, was assigned to FUJIKURA LTD. (Tokyo).

"Optical computation system" was invented by Hiroyuki Kusaka (Tokyo) and Masahiro Kashiwagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical computing system includes: an intensity modulation device group including at least two intensity modulation devices, each of which includes modulation cells, wherein each of the modulation cells of each of the intensity modulation devices carries out intensity modulation with respect to carrier light in accordance with one of signals to generate a signal light beam, and each of the signals corresponds to each of the intensity modul...