Six complete specifications covering every layer of the photonic-ternary computing stack — from the SWCNT@MWCNT device to a microkernel operating system. Filed with the Indian Patent Office in 2026. Simulation-confirmed device physics.
The foundational device patent covers three core inventions: metallocene CVD fabrication of the SWCNT@MWCNT structure, the photonic-to-ternary transducer architecture, and the AC switching method. Two concentric carbon nanotubes — a metallic (8,8) armchair SWCNT inside an MWCNT — separated by a 0.34 nm van der Waals gap.
Trit encoding uses photon absorption + AC pulse polarity: photon + positive phase = +1, no photon = 0 (true zero), photon + negative phase = −1. NEGF quantum transport simulation confirms ±74 µA switching current with SNR > 2000 (54 dB).
A complete optical-ternary standard cell library for balanced ternary logic design. Gates operate on photonic trit signals from the SWCNT@MWCNT transducer. The arithmetic engine uses Kirchhoff's Current Law (KCL) at junction nodes for natural ternary computation.
Processor architecture designed for photonic-ternary hardware, with the T3ISA balanced ternary instruction set and execution pipeline. Instructions operate on trit-width registers with addressing modes compatible with the ternary memory architecture.
Covers fabric management hardware, memory bus architecture, and interconnect for the photonic-ternary system. Includes a hardware trit-trie circuit for efficient ternary search — each node branches on three trit states (−1, 0, +1), enabling O(k) operations on trit-encoded keys of depth k.
Cryptographic hardware primitives designed for balanced ternary arithmetic. Design-for-test (DFT) infrastructure and built-in self-test (BIST) circuits ensure manufacturing testability and runtime integrity verification of the photonic-ternary fabric.
The software patent covers the ManiT balanced ternary programming language, its dual-target compiler (LLVM IR for binary hosts + T3ISA for ternary hardware), and the THATTEOS photonic-ternary microkernel operating system.
The compiler is implemented in Rust (~11,600 LOC). THATTEOS is a microkernel with
boot loader, scheduler, interrupt handler, process manager, privilege domains, virtual memory,
IPC, and syscall interface — all written in ManiT and compiled to .t3b binaries.
Each patent covers a layer of the photonic-ternary computing stack. Patents build on each other from device to software.
| Layer | Patent | Title | Depends On | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thatte1 | Device — Fabrication + Transducer + Switching | — | Filed |
| 2 | Thatte2 | Logic — Gate Library + Arithmetic | Thatte1 | Filed |
| 3 | Thatte3 | Processor — Architecture + T3ISA | Thatte2 | Filed |
| 4 | Thatte4 | Memory — Interconnect + Trit-Trie | Thatte3 | Filed |
| 5 | Thatte5 | Security — Crypto + DFT/BIST | Thatte1 | Filed |
| 6 | Thatte6 | Software — ManiT + Compiler + THATTEOS | Thatte3 | Filed |