ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,425, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CENTER Co. LTD (Chongqing, China).

"Computing with optical signal" was invented by Ye Tian (Chongqing, China), Yang Zhao (Chongqing, China), Shengping Liu (Chongqing, China), Wei Wang (Chongqing, China), Qiang Li (Chongqing, China), Junbo Feng (Chongqing, China) and Jin Guo (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes: an input port to receive a first optical signal; a matrix calculation unit having a transmission matrix and configured to use the transmission matrix to process the first optical signal to obtai...