US Patent Issued to Kepler Computing on May 27 for "Multi-function linear threshold gate with input based adaptive threshold" (Oregon, Texas, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,319, issued on May 27, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"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.) 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. Digital inputs are received by respective capacitors on first terminals...