US Patent Issued to Kepler Computing on Feb. 4 for "Stacked planar capacitors based multi-function linear threshold gate with input based adaptive threshold" (Oregon, California, Texas, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,045, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Stacked planar capacitors based multi-function linear threshold gate with input based adaptive threshold" was invented by Amrita Mathuriya (Portland, Ore.), Rafael Rios (Austin, Texas), Ikenna Odinaka (Durham, N.C.), Rajeev Kumar Dokania (Beaverton, Ore.), Debo Olaosebikan (San Francisco) and Sasikanth Manipatruni (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and configuring scheme where a capacitive input circuit can be programmed to perform different logic functions by adjusting the switching threshold of the capacitive input circuit. Digita...