US Patent Issued to WESTFALISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT MUNSTER on June 30 for "Optical matrix multiplication unit for an optoelectronic system for forming an artificial neural network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,380, issued on June 30, was assigned to WESTFALISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT MUNSTER (Munster, Germany).

"Optical matrix multiplication unit for an optoelectronic system for forming an artificial neural network" was invented by Wolfram Pernice (Munster, Germany) and Johannes Feldmann (Munster, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical matrix multiplication unit for an optoelectronic system can be used to form an artificial neural network, having N input waveguides, M output waveguides and a plurality of matrix multiplication unit cells for signal processing of optical signals of one each of the N input waveguides and for transfe...