US Patent Issued to Vanderbilt University on June 30 for "Meta-optic accelerators for object classifiers" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,706, issued on June 30, was assigned to Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Meta-optic accelerators for object classifiers" was invented by Jason Valentine (Nashville, Tenn.), Yuankai Huo (Nashville, Tenn.), Hanyu Zheng (Nashville, Tenn.) and Quan Liu (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for identifying objects in images is provided. The system may include an optical front end and a digital back end. The optical front end includes a metalens that duplicates a received image into multiple images, and a metasurface that receives the duplicate images and outputs a feature map based on the received images. The...