US Patent Issued to Celestial AI on June 24 for "Electro-photonic network for machine learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,492, issued on June 24, was assigned to Celestial AI Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "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 elements can be configured to stream act...