This is very intersting.
To try and aid my understanding of the new patent, I have cherry picked a few key phrases from the opening paragraphs of the section entitled ' Detailed Description of the Preferred Embodiments.
From my understanding of what I read my conclusions on this patent are:
- This is about the POET process.
- The clock is reset on seventeen previous patents by incorporating them in one
Quotes are in bold italics, brackets and plain text are my comments.
Taken From <http://patents.justia.com/patent/9276160
The present application builds upon technology (referred to by the Applicant as “Planar Optoelectronic Technology” or “POET”) that provides for the realization of a variety of devices (optoelectronic devices, logic circuits and/or signal processing circuits) utilizing inversion quantum-well channel device structures as described in detail in:
(there follows a list of 17 Patents.
all of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties. (See Note 1)
With these structures, a fabrication sequence can be used to make the devices on a common substrate. In other words, n type and p type contacts, critical etches, etc. can be used to realize all of these devices simultaneously on a common substrate.
POET can be used to construct a variety of optoelectronic devices. POET can also be used to construct a variety of high performance transistor devices, such as complementary n-channel and p-channel HFET unipolar transistor devices as well as n-type and p-type HBT bipolar transistor devices.
Note 1- This is a key phrase. My count is seventeen previously listed patents.
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