US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NTT Research on May 19 for "In-network optical inference" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,606, issued on May 19, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and NTT Research Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"In-network optical inference" was invented by Manya Ghobadi (Cambridge, Mass.), Zhizhen Zhong (Cambridge, Mass.), Weiyang Wang (Cambridge, Mass.), Liane Sarah Beland Bernstein (Cambridge, Mass.), Alexander Sludds (Cambridge, Mass.), Ryan Hamerly (Cambridge, Mass.) and Dirk Robert Englund (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In-network Optical Inference (IOI) provides low-latency machine learning inference by leveraging programmable switches and optical matrix multiplication. IOI uses a...