ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,801, issued on May 13, was assigned to SHANGHAI XIZHI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Shanghai).

"Method and system for determining a guided random data sampling" was invented by Andrew Knyazev (Shanghai), Huaiyu Meng (Shanghai) and Yichen Shen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for determining a guided random data sampling are disclosed. The method comprises: converting input data into an optical signal with a variable average intensity through a first conversion module; converting the optical signal into a guided optical signal according to guiding data by a photonic computing module, wherein the average intensity o...