US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Oct. 27 for "Photonic-electronic deep neural networks" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,830, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Photonic-electronic deep neural networks" was invented by Firooz Aflatouni (Penn Valley, Pa.) and Farshid Ashtiani (Chatham, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for photonic-electronic neural network computation. In an embodiment, arrays of input data are processed in an optical domain and applied through a plurality of photonic-electronic neuron layers, such as in a neural network. The data may be passed through one or more convolution cells, training layers, and classification layers to generate o...