ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,134, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Diode connected non-linear input capacitors based majority gate" was invented by Amrita Mathuriya (Portland, Ore.), Rafael Rios (Austin, Texas), Dmitri E. Nikonov (Beaverton, Ore.), Biswajeet Guha (Hillsboro, Ore.), 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: "A logic gate includes a first capacitor to receive a first input, the first capacitor coupled to a node and a first diode structure coupled to the first input and the node. The logic gate future include...