US Patent Issued to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on June 17 for "Ternary logic element and ternary logic system including same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,922, issued on June 17, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Ternary logic element and ternary logic system including same" was invented by Yang Kyu Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Joon Kyu Han (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ternary logic element including a transistor and a switching element. The transistor includes a channel layer including silicon, an input electrode, an output electrode, and a control electrode. The switching element includes an emitter, a base extending from the emitter, and a collector extending from the base. When a first control vo...