US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on June 16 for "Optical systems and methods using broadband diffractive neural networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,449, issued on June 16, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Optical systems and methods using broadband diffractive neural networks" was invented by Aydogan Ozcan (Los Angeles), Yi Luo (Los Angeles), Deniz Mengu (Los Angeles) and Yair Rivenson (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A broadband diffractive optical neural network simultaneously processes a continuum of wavelengths generated by a temporally-incoherent broadband source to all-optically perform a specific task learned using network learning. The optical neural network design was verified by designing, fabricating and testin...