ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,743, issued on June 3, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Multi-function threshold gate with input based adaptive threshold and with stacked non-planar paraelectric capacitors" 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 paraelectric capacitive input circuit can be programmed to perform different logic functions by adjusting the switching threshold of the parael...