ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,076, issued on May 27, was assigned to Lightmatter Inc. (Boston).
"Fast prediction processor" was invented by Michael Gould (La Honda, Calif.), Carl Ramey (Westborough, Mass.), Nicholas C. Harris (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Darius Bunandar (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hybrid analog-digital processing systems are described. An example of a hybrid analog-digital processing system includes photonic accelerator configured to perform matrix-vector multiplication using light. The photonic accelerator exhibits a frequency response having a first bandwidth (e.g., less than 3 GHz). The hybrid analog-digital processing system further in...