US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL on July 1 for "High-speed computer generated holography using convolutional neural networks" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,066, issued on July 1, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"High-speed computer generated holography using convolutional neural networks" was invented by Nicolas Christian Richard Pegard (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Mohammad Hossein Eybposh (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Nicholas William Caira (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Mathew Abuya Atisa (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Praneeth Kumar Chakravarthula (Carrboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The goal of computer generated holography (CGH) is to synthesize custom illumination patterns by shaping the wavefront of a coherent light beam. Existing algorithms for CGH re...