US Patent Issued to University of Nottingham Innovation Park on March 24 for "Circuit and device including a transistor and diode" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,187, issued on March 24, was assigned to University of Nottingham Innovation Park (Nottingham, Great Britain).

"Circuit and device including a transistor and diode" was invented by David Summerland (Nottingham, Great Britain), Roger Light (Nottingham, Great Britain) and Luke Knight (Nottingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter logic circuit includes a bipolar junction transistor and a zener diode. The zener diode is connected between the base of the bipolar junction transistor and ground (or other reference voltage). The zener diode is reverse biased such that a leakage current through the zener diode allows ...