ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,418, issued on June 23, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Optical computation device and optical computation method" 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 device includes a light diffraction element group including light diffraction elements each having an optical computing function, and a light emitter that generates signal light inputted into the light diffraction element group and indicative of images formed by different optical systems."
The patent was filed on Jan. 14, 2022, under Application No. 18/262,382.
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