Patent ID: RE42310

Claim:
A digital logic device comprising one or more electronic information storage means, and addressing means for accessing said storage means, wherein each said electronic information storage means comprises: a plurality of generally parallel conductive means; a second plurality of generally parallel conductive means that is generally perpendicular to and overlapping with the first said plurality of generally parallel conductive means; a plurality of bits of potential information storage where a bit of said plurality of bits is present in the general vicinity of each point of intersection of each conductive means of the first said plurality of generally parallel conductive means with each conductive means of the second said plurality of generally parallel conductive means, and where the state of any said bit is determined by the presence or absence of a rectifying conductive means at each said general vicinity of said point of intersection; means for selecting a conductive means of one plurality of generally parallel conductive means, and means for biasing the generally parallel conductive means of the other plurality of generally parallel conductive means such that each said rectifying conductive means present between a conductive means of said biased plurality of generally parallel conductive means to a conductive means of the other said plurality of generally parallel conductive means is potentially forward biased; means for selecting a biased conductive means by electronically disabling conductive means within said biased plurality of generally parallel conductive means by shifting the voltage of those biased conductive means that are to be disabled; and wherein said addressing means comprises: means for controlling said means for electronically selecting conductive means of one said plurality of generally parallel conductive means and for electronically selecting conductive means of the other said plurality of generally parallel conductive means.