The patent issued to the invention was made by a group of authors from the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytecnic Institute and Technical University of Dresden (Germany), is registered in 120 countries!
The International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization issued a patent in late 2017 for "Instrument and method for alternating electrical connection of components located on a substrate", sponsored by Professor Henning Hoyer (Technical University of Dresden, Germany), graduate student of the Technical University of Dresden Iryna Patsora (Germany), Professor Borys Tsyhanok, Assistant Ostap Oliinyk and Associate Professor Dmytro Tatarchuk (all three are from the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytecnic Institute, Faculty of Electronics).
The invention is devoted to the solution of one of the key problems of modern electronics, which consists in a low level of internal misfits in electronic structures (the number of connections of each element with each). The idea is to create interconnections in electronic structures in the mode of time-sharing, and interconnections are created on the principle: "where they are needed, and when they are needed." For this purpose it is proposed to use the known physical phenomenon - photoconductivity. However, it is possible to use other types of dynamic heterogeneities. At the same time, various variants of circuit switching of active electronic components placed on the surface of the crystal are possible. For example, the same transistors in the time-sharing mode can be used to create different logic elements or other circuit connections. This allows to realize the principle of multifunctionality when using the same electronic components.
Using the patented method creates opportunities for the implementation of quasi-neural systems with the application of the principle of flexible priority processing of information flows, signals.
The patent is registered in 120 countries of the world on the basis of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) by the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO-WIPO) thanks to many years of cooperation of developers from the Electronics Department of the KPI them. Igor Sikorsky with their colleagues from the Technical University of Dresden (TUD).
Congratulations to our inventors!