US Patent Issued to University of Washington on June 23 for "Integrated cavity acousto-optics for frequency domain optical computing and frequency comb generation" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,663, issued on June 23, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Integrated cavity acousto-optics for frequency domain optical computing and frequency comb generation" was invented by Mo Li (Seattle), Han Zhao (Seattle) and Bingzhao Li (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for optical computation and acousto-optic modulation are described. The systems and methods comprise acousto-optic modulators with reflectors and transducers used for actuation and modulation of mechanical waves. The systems further comprise multilayer optical computing systems incorporating arrays of acousto-optic modulators. In a...