ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,719, issued on May 19, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical computing apparatus and system, and computing method" was invented by Jiaxu Zhang (Hong Kong), Jiang Xu (Hong Kong), Zhifei Wang (Hong Kong), Xuanqi Chen (Hong Kong), Shixi Chen (Hong Kong), Xiaowen Dong (Shenzhen, China) and Shaobo Ji (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical computing apparatus and system and a computing method are provided. The optical computing apparatus includes a linear operation module, a first delay module, and a coupler. The linear operation module can modulate, based on received electrical signal...