US Patent Issued to Lightmatter on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for utilizing photonic degrees of freedom in a photonic processor" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,119, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Lightmatter Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for utilizing photonic degrees of freedom in a photonic processor" was invented by Darius Bunandar (Boston), Michael Gould (La Honda, Calif.), Nicholas C. Harris (Boston) and Carl Ramey (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for increasing throughput of a photonic processor by using photonic degrees of freedom (DOF) are provided. The photonic processor includes a multiplexer configured to multiplex, using at least one photonic DOF, multiple encoded optical signals into a multiplexed optical signal. The photonic pr...