ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,750, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Optical crossbar array with compensation and associated method" was invented by Mahsa Salmani (Vaughan, Canada) and Armaghan Eshaghi (Aurora, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for computing multiplication operations involving vectors, matrices or both, using a photonic computing architecture including an optical crossbar array. A compensation device is used to compensate for non-ideal characteristics of devices in the optical crossbar array. Apparatus and methods for representing negative-valued vectors of a multipl...