US Patent Issued to Kepler Computing on May 20 for "Multiplier with non-linear polar material" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,837, issued on May 20, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Multiplier with non-linear polar material" was invented by Sasikanth Manipatruni (Portland, Ore.), Yuan-Sheng Fang (Oakland, Calif.), Robert Menezes (Portland, Ore.), Rajeev Kumar Dokania (Beaverton, Ore.), Gaurav Thareja (Santa Clara, Calif.), Amrita Mathuriya (Portland, Ore.) and Ramamoorthy Ramesh (Moraga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new class of multiplier cells (analog or digital) is derived from a 1-bit full adder and an AND gate. The 1-bit full adder is derived from first and second majority gates. The multiplier cell can also be impleme...