ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,128, issued on July 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical computing apparatus and method" was invented by Ran Hao (Hangzhou, China), Huaqing Jiang (Hangzhou, China), Jianjun He (Hangzhou, China) and Chong Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses an optical computing apparatus and method, and relates to the field of optical processing technologies. The apparatus implements two-dimensional Fourier transform of input data. The apparatus includes a beam splitting phase shift module and a beam combination module. The beam splitting phase shift module is configured ...