US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 8 for "Misalignment-resilient diffractive optical neural networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,022, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Misalignment-resilient diffractive optical neural networks" was invented by Aydogan Ozcan (Los Angeles), Deniz Mengu (Los Angeles) and Yair Rivenson (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diffractive optical neural network includes one more layers that are resilient to misalignments, fabrication-related errors, detector noise, and/or other sources of error. A diffractive optical neural network model is first trained with a computing device to perform a statistical inference task such as image classification (e.g., object cla...