US Patent Issued to Celestial AI on July 8 for "Electro-photonic network for machine learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,006, issued on July 8, was assigned to Celestial AI Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Electro-photonic network for machine learning" was invented by Philip Winterbottom (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Martinus Bos (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide for electro-photonic networks, including a plurality of processing elements connected by bidirectional photonic channels, suited for implementing neural-network models. Weights of the model may be preloaded into memory of the processing elements based on assignments of neural nodes to processing elements implementing them, and routers of the processing element...