US Patent Issued to Universal Display, THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY on May 12 for "Integrated optical neuromorphic computing apparatus" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,116, issued on May 12, was assigned to Universal Display Corp. (Ewing, N.J.) and THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, N.J.).

"Integrated optical neuromorphic computing apparatus" was invented by Michael Hack (Carmel, Calif.), Paul Prucnal (Princeton, N.J.), Thomas Ferreira de Lima (Princeton, N.J.), Michael S. Weaver (Princeton, N.J.) and Simon Bilodeau (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid neuromorphic computing device is provided, in which artificial neurons include light-emitting devices that provide weighted sums of inputs as light output. The output is detected by a photodetector and converted to an...