US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on April 29 for "Optical Ising machines and optical convolutional neural networks" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,842, issued on April 29, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Optical Ising machines and optical convolutional neural networks" was invented by Charles Roques-Carmes (Cambridge, Mass.), Yichen Shen (Cambridge, Mass.), Li Jing (Cambridge, Mass.), Tena Dubcek (Cambridge, Mass.), Scott A. Skirlo (Boston), Hengameh Bagherianlemraski (Cambridge, Mass.) and Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic parallel network can be used to sample combinatorially hard distributions of Ising problems. The photonic parallel network, also called a photonic processor, finds the ground st...