ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,231, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method of integrating a capacitor including a non-linear polar material with a transistor through wafer bonding" was invented by Mauricio Manfrini (Heverlee, Belgium), Noriyuki Sato (Hillsboro, Ore.), James David Clarkson (El Sobrante, Calif.), Abel Fernandez (Berkeley, Calif.), Somilkumar J. Rathi (San Jose, Calif.), Niloy Mukherjee (San Ramon, Calif.), Tanay Gosavi (Portland, Ore.), Amrita Mathuriya (Portland, Ore.), Rajeev Kumar Dokania (Beaverton, Ore.) and Sasikanth Manipatruni (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a ...