US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Princeton University, Universal Display on Sept. 8 for "Light-emitting diode neuron" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,021, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Trustees of Princeton University and Universal Display Corp..

"Light-emitting diode neuron" was invented by Simon Bilodeau (Princeton, N.J.), Paul Prucnal (Princeton, N.J.), Michael Hack (Ewing, N.J.), Thomas Ferreira de Lima (Princeton, N.J.), Hsuan-Tung Peng (Princeton, N.J.) and Eric Blow (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device comprises a plurality of artificial neurons comprising first and second artificial neurons, at least one optical connection between an optical output of the first artificial neuron and an optical input of the second artificial neuron, t...