ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,680, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to JINAN INSTITUTE OF SUPERCOMPUTING TECHNOLOGY (Shandong, China) and SHANDONG COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTER (NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER IN JINAN (Shandong, China).

"Device for image recognition based on full-analog photonic neural network and method thereof" was invented by Aleksandr Raikov (Shandong, China), Meng Guo (Shandong, China), Jingshan Pan (Shandong, China) and Weina Chen (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The provided is a device for image based on FAPNN and a recognition method, comprising creating training transparent matrices corresponding to various discrete image categor...