US Patent Issued to Lightmatter on June 9 for "LED-based photonic communication and processing unit" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,069, issued on June 9, was assigned to Lightmatter Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"LED-based photonic communication and processing unit" was invented by Nicholas C. Harris (Boston) and Darius Bunandar (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photonic processors are described herein that are configured to perform matrix-matrix (e.g., matrix-vector) multiplication by directly encoding a first value in the output of the light source. Some embodiments relate to a photonic device configured to perform a mathematical operation, the photonic device comprising a modulatable light emitting diode (LED) and a modulatable detector. The modulatable L...