US Patent Issued to Kepler Computing on Jan. 28 for "Non-linear polar material based flip-flop" (Oregon, Texas, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,321, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Non-linear polar material based flip-flop" was invented by Amrita Mathuriya (Portland, Ore.), Ikenna Odinaka (Durham, N.C.), Rajeev Kumar Dokania (Beaverton, Ore.), Rafael Rios (Austin, Texas) and Sasikanth Manipatruni (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low power sequential circuit (e.g., latch) uses a non-linear polar capacitor to retain charge with fewer transistors than traditional CMOS sequential circuits. In one example, a sequential circuit includes pass-gates and inverters, but without a feedback mechanism or memory element. In anothe...