US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG LAB on May 12 for "Two-dimensional photonic convolutional acceleration system and device for convolutional neural network" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,118, issued on May 12, was assigned to ZHEJIANG LAB (Hangzhou, China).

"Two-dimensional photonic convolutional acceleration system and device for convolutional neural network" was invented by Qingshui Guo (Hangzhou, China), Kun Yin (Hangzhou, China) and Chen Ji (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a two-dimensional photonic convolutional acceleration system and device for convolutional neural network, comprising: a multi-wavelength light source, a signal source to be convolved, a modulator, a dispersion module, a 1xM power divider, an optical fiber delay array, a microring weighting array chi...