Patent ID: 8907718

Claim:
A resistive-heater addressing network comprising: at least two pairs of heater-diode connections, each pair of heater-diode connections comprising: a first unidirectional heater-diode connection comprising a first resistive-heater and at least one first diode connected together in series, said at least one first diode directed in a first forward-biased direction; a second unidirectional heater-diode connection comprising a second resistive-heater and at least one second diode connected together in series, said at least one second diode directed in a second forward-biased direction opposite from the first forward-biased direction; N nodes, where N is an integer >2, each one of the N nodes being connected to at least another one of the N nodes by one of the pairs of heater-diode connections, each resistive-heater of the network being individually addressable by applying a voltage difference across a pair of nodes.