Government of USA/Secretary of Navy Assigned Patent

The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC, has been assigned a patent (11625590) developed by Cho, Hans S., Vienna, VA, for a “memristive multi-terminal spiking neuron.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A memristive multi-terminal spiking neuron apparatus, comprising a non-volatile memristor, wherein the non-volatile memristor has a resistance ratio between the high-resistance and low-resistance states exceeding 4 decades of magnitude, wherein the non-volatile memristor retains its resistance states for a time period exceeding 1 second, a volatile memristor, wherein the volatile memristor retains its low-resistance state for a time period of less than 10 nanoseconds, and a capacitor, wherein the volatile memristor is in parallel with the capacitor. A method of making a programmable electrical spiking output from a memristive multi-terminal spiking neuron, comprising providing one or more devices wherein each device comprises a non-volatile memristor, a volatile memristor, wherein the volatile memristor is in parallel with the capacitor, providing a first input spiking signal to a neuron device, providing a second input spiking signal, and creating a programmable spiking output signal which changes.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-03-24 (16/827745).