US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Oct. 14 for "Diffractive deep neural networks with differential and class-specific detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,838, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Diffractive deep neural networks with differential and class-specific detection" was invented by Aydogan Ozcan (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Yair Rivenson (Los Angeles), Jingxi Li (Los Angeles), Deniz Mengu (Los Angeles) and Yi Luo (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diffractive optical neural network device includes a plurality of diffractive substrate layers arranged in an optical path. The substrate layers are formed with physical features across surfaces thereof that collectively define a trained mapping function between an...