ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,284, issued on Sept. 1, 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 receiver that detects respective intensities of wavelength components contained in signal light outputted from the light diffraction element group. The light diffraction elements are disposed side by side on a light path of the signal light inputted into...