US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on June 30 for "Machine vision using diffractive spectral encoding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,379, issued on June 30, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Machine vision using diffractive spectral encoding" was invented by Aydogan Ozcan (Los Angeles), Jingxi Li (Los Angeles), Deniz Mengu (Los Angeles) and Yair Rivenson (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine vision task, machine learning task, and/or classification of objects is performed using a diffractive optical neural network device. Light from objects passes through or reflects off the diffractive optical neural network device formed by multiple substrate layers. The diffractive optical neural network device defin...