ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,049, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Reconfigurable electro-optical logic gate to perform multiple logic operations" was invented by Yuan Yuan (Milpitas, Calif.), Thomas Van Vaerenbergh (Flemish Brabant, Belgium), Antoine Descos (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Stanley Cheung (Milpitas, Calif.), Wayne Sorin (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yiwei Peng (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example optical system having an electro-optical (EO) logic gate connected to a controller is presented. The controller modulates a first encoded electrical signal and a second encoded e...