CUPERTINO, Calif.--()--Alliacense announced today that Renesas Electronics Corporation has purchased a Fast Logic™ Portfolio license from The TPL Group. Renesas Electronics Corporation, headquarted in Japan, is the world's number one supplier of microcontrollers, and a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions including microcontrollers, SoC solutions and a broad range of analog and power devices.
Renesas joins more than 30 other global electronics leaders who have purchased Fast Logic licenses since the licensing program began in 2007, including Samsung, Motorola, Philips, GE, and Nokia.
The TPL Group continues to demonstrate its commitment to invest in the protection of its licensees. In September 2011 it filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Delaware against 18 of the companies it believes are infringing its Fast Logic Patent Portfolio. Several of those defendants have recently purchased licenses.
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About the Fast Logic™ Portfolio
The Fast Logic Portfolio includes U.S. Patent No. 5,030,853, titled “High Speed Logic and Memory Family Using Ring Segment Buffer,” U.S. Patent No. 5,391,949, titled “Differential Latching Inverter Circuit,” U.S. Patent No. 5,247,212, titled “Complementary Logic Input Parallel (CLIP) Logic Circuit Family,” U.S. Patent No. 5,001,367, titled “High Speed Complementary Field Effect Transistor Logic Circuits,” and U.S. Patent No. 5,363,001, titled “Data Input Register For Random Access Memory.”
These innovations of visionary scientist Albert Vinal founder of Thunderbird Technologies have become common building blocks in today’s electronics products. Thunderbird Technologies develops fundamental design techniques for high-speed memories and high-performance transistor design. Thunderbird’s high-speed memory designs include improvements to circuit and associated transistor design. In 2007, The TPL Group partnered with Thunderbird Technologies to advance these protected, fundamental innovations as the Fast Logic Portfolio.