ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,491, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Milkshake Technology Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Cascadable photonic circuits with nonlinear amplitude thresholders" was invented by Bicky A. Marquez (Kingston, Canada), Joshua Baxter (Ottawa), Ahmed Khaled (Kingston, Canada), Alireza Samani (Ottawa), Orad Reshef (Ottawa), Bhavin J. Shastri (Kingston, Canada) and Douglas H. Wightman (Kingston, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic circuit with at least one nonlinear amplitude thresholder for correcting errors produced by linear photonic logic. One or more photonic input gates of the photonic circuit receive one or more input signals ...