US Patent Issued to Kepler Computing on Oct. 21 for "Ripple carry adder with ferroelectric or paraelectric wide-input minority or majority gates" (Oregon, Texas, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,888, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Ripple carry adder with ferroelectric or paraelectric wide-input minority or majority gates" was invented by Amrita Mathuriya (Portland, Ore.), Ikenna Odinaka (Durham, N.C.), Rajeev Kumar Dokania (Beaverton, Ore.), Rafael Rios (Austin, Texas) and Sasikanth Manipatruni (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low power adder uses a non-linear polar capacitor to retain charge with fewer transistors than traditional CMOS sequential circuits. The non-linear polar capacitor includes ferroelectric material, paraelectric material, or non-linear dielectri...