ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,219, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"Optical computing machine" was invented by Takuya Ikuta (Musashino, Japan), Takahiro Inagaki (Musashino, Japan) and Hiroki Takesue (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide an optical computer having high scalability and capable of reducing noise. This optical computer is characterized by including: an input layer which accepts an input signal as a computer; a reservoir layer which responds to a signal input from the input layer, and in which using a plurality of degenerate optical parametric oscillator (DOPO) pulses of ...