US Patent Issued to Lightmatter on Aug. 25 for "Switched spatial tensor data manipulation with photonics" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,872, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Lightmatter Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Switched spatial tensor data manipulation with photonics" was invented by Nicholas C. Harris (Boston), Carl Ramey (Westborough, Mass.), Darius Bunandar (Boston) and Ayon Basumallik (Framingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manipulating an input vector is described. The method involves controlling a plurality of optical switches to obtain a nominal orientation vector or a transpose orientation vector based on a plurality of input optical signals encoding the input vector and received at the plurality of optical switches. The nominal...