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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 1979

Filed:

Jul. 18, 1978
Applicant:
Inventors:

Hans J Stocker, Summit, NJ (US);

LeGrand G Van Uitert, Morris Township, Morris County, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B / ; H05B / ; H05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3151693 ; 365110 ;
Abstract

Devices of the nature of magnetic bubble devices, but in which 'bits' take the form of light spots, are described. A prototypical device takes the form of an electroluminescent, photoconducting film straddled by orthogonal arrays of insulated strip electrodes forming closely spaced intercept positions so arranged that during operation such intercepts are sequentially biased. A light spot once nucleated--e.g., through a combination of electroinduced and photoinduced luminescence, is stepped by applying bias below nucleation threshold. Devices may serve a variety of memory and/or logic functions.


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