ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,799, issued on July 1, was assigned to Tsinghua University (Beijing).

"Optical artificial neural network intelligent chip, preparation method thereof and intelligent processing apparatus" was invented by Kaiyu Cui (Beijing), Jiawei Yang (Beijing), Jian Xiong (Beijing), Yidong Huang (Beijing), Fang Liu (Beijing), Xue Feng (Beijing) and Wei Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical artificial neural network intelligent chip, a preparation method thereof and an intelligent processing apparatus. The optical filter layer serves as the input layer of the artificial neural network. The image sensor serves as the linear layer o...