OPTICAL COMPUTING DEVICES (digital storage using optical elements G11C13/04)

Introduced: January 1990

Description

G06E covers computing and calculating devices that use optical phenomena as the primary operational mechanism, including photonic processors and light-based logic systems. These technologies employ photons, light beams, or optical signals to perform computational functions such as arithmetic operations, data processing, and logical operations that are traditionally handled by electronic computers. Typical inventions include optical gates, photonic circuits, holographic processors, and systems using interference or diffraction for information manipulation. This subclass excludes purely electronic computing devices (G06F) and optical display or measurement instruments lacking computational function.

Title

Titles differ between systems:

IPC: OPTICAL COMPUTING DEVICES

CPC: OPTICAL COMPUTING DEVICES (digital storage using optical elements G11C13/04)

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

OPTICAL COMPUTING DEVICES

CPC:

OPTICAL COMPUTING DEVICES (digital storage using optical elements G11C13/04)

IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 2 subcodes exist in both systems.

1 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.

IPC defines codes here since 1990.

Child Classifications

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G06E 1/00 Devices for processing exclusively digital data since 1990 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
G06E 3/00 Devices not provided for in group G06E1/00, e.g. for processing analogue or hybrid data since 1990 +3 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC