ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,176, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Quebec, Canada) and GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAT HANNOVER (Hannover, Germany).

"Nonlinear optical system and method for optical information processing" was invented by Bennet Fischer (Montreal), Piotr Roztocki (Longueuil, Canada), Mario Chemnitz (Jena, Germany), Cristina Rimoldi (Turin, Italy), Benjamin Maclellan (Stirling, Canada), Luis Romero Cortes (Aljaraque, Spain), Michael Kues (Hannover, Germany), Jose Azana (Montreal), Yoann Jestin (Montreal) and Roberto Morandotti (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical information pr...