ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,520, issued on April 29.
"Method and system for CMOS-like logic gates using TFTs and applications therefor" was invented by Sheida Gohardehi (Waterloo, Canada), Manoj Sachdev (Waterloo, Canada), Qing Li (Cupertino, Calif.) and William Wong (Waterloo, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed at a CMOS-like logic gate including a set of thin-film transistors (TFTs), the set of TFTs including a subset of pull down TFTs, a subset of diode-connected TFTs and an output pull-up transistor; and a capacitor; wherein the subset of diode-connected TFTs, the output pull-up transistor and the capacitor are positioned to pro...