US Patent Issued to FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAT ERLANGEN- NURNBERG on Dec. 16 for "Logic gate device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,588, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAT ERLANGEN- NURNBERG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Logic gate device" was invented by Tobias Weitz (Erlangen, Germany), Peter Hommelhoff (Erlangen, Germany) and Christian Heide (Weiden In Der Oberpfalz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A logic gate device comprising a probe structure having an interface contact, a first logic input for receiving a first light pulse having a first carrier-envelope phase that encodes an input state of the first logic input and a second logic input for receiving a second light pulse having a second carrier-envelope phase that encodes an...