US Patent Issued to Lightmatter on Oct. 14 for "Optical computing with disaggregated memory" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,356, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Lightmatter Inc. (Boston).

"Optical computing with disaggregated memory" was invented by Robert Turner (Georgetown, Texas) and Darius Bunandar (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are embodiments of a photonic computing system comprising one or more processors in communication with disaggregated memory through one or more optical channels. The disaggregated memory comprises multiple memory units placed on a photonic substrate that includes a photonic network that can be programmed to configure which of the memory units can be accessed by each of the processor(s). The disaggre...