US Patent Issued to Ohio University on Nov. 3 for "Photonic accelerator for deep neural networks" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,855, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Ohio University (Athens, Ohio).

"Photonic accelerator for deep neural networks" was invented by Kyle Shiflett (Chillicothe, Ohio) and Avinash Karanth (Canal Winchester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for performing computations for neural networks. A photonic locally-connected unit for a neural network accelerator includes a plurality of optical modulators, a positive accumulation waveguide, a negative accumulation waveguide, a plurality of optical adders, and first and second photodetectors. Each optical modulator receives a respective input optical signal and a respecti...