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Renesas Purchases Fast Logic Portfolio License

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Renesas has purchased a Fast Logic Portfolio license from The TPL Group, says intellectual property management services Alliacense.

Renesas Electronics Corporation, headquarted in Japan, is a supplier of microcontrollers, and a 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 companies who have purchased Fast Logic licenses since the licensing program began in 2007, including Samsung, Motorola, Philips, GE, and Nokia.

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.”

 

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