ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,919, issued on June 30, was assigned to The George Washington University (Washington).
"Silicon photonics-based chiplet accelerator for DNN inference" was invented by Yuan Li (Washington) and Ahmed Louri (Washington).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer architecture has a global optical waveguide, a buffer having memory space having a memory hierarchy above main memory for temporary data storage. A transmitter transmits a first optical signal with a first plurality of optical wavelengths on the global optical waveguide, and a second optical signal with a second plurality of optical wavelengths on the global optical waveguide. A r...