US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on Aug. 12 for "Photonic tensor accelerators for artificial neural networks" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,094, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Photonic tensor accelerators for artificial neural networks" was invented by Guifang Li (Orlando, Fla.), Shuo Pang (Orlando, Fla.) and He Wen (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photonic units for vector-vector multiplication, matrix-vector multiplication, matrix-matrix multiplication, batch matrix-matrix multiplication, and tensor-tensor multiplication are described. Multiplications are through coherent mixing and square-law detection. There are many dimensions-wavelength, vector mode, quadrature, and three dime...