2006 — 2027+
The Journey
Twenty years from a carbon nanotube insight in 2006 to a complete balanced ternary computing patent portfolio filed at the Indian Patent Office in March 2026. One inventor. Nine patents. A full stack.
While studying carbon nanotube properties, Manish Jagdish Thatte discovers that CNFET devices exhibit three stable conducting states. Documents the core concept of using SWCNT@MWCNT channels with GNR gate electrodes for balanced ternary logic.
ConceptionCore invention concept documented in a notarized affidavit, later certified by CIVEN (Italy). Establishes the prior art date for the unified molecular fabrication method described in Patent P3.
Priority DateContinuous refinement of the balanced ternary computing concept. Study of carbon nanotube fabrication advances worldwide — IBM, Stanford, and TSMC demonstrations. Development of the theoretical framework spanning device physics through operating system design.
R&DFormal design of the complete balanced ternary computing stack: transistor structure, switching method, gate library, processor architecture, compiler, operating system, filesystem, and data structures. Nine interdependent inventions taking shape as a unified system.
DesignSPICE simulation of the ternary gate library using the Stanford CNFET model on ngspice. All four gate types verified: TINV with ±0.3V threshold switching, TMIN2 (9/9 truth table entries), TMAX3 (27/27), and TMAJ3 (27/27). ManiT compiler v0.1.0 built. THATTE-OS microkernel compiled to .t3b binaries.
VerifiedNine provisional patent applications filed at the Indian Patent Office, Mumbai/Pune branch. A complete computing stack from transistor physics to data structures. 31 documents, 24 technical figures, 9 final specification PDFs. Single inventor: Manish Jagdish Thatte.
FiledDeadline to convert all nine provisional applications to complete patent specifications with full claims, detailed descriptions, and amended drawings under the Indian Patents Act.
NextPCT and Paris Convention international patent filings in target jurisdictions. Physical device fabrication and laboratory demonstration of balanced ternary switching. Launch of the open licensing program through maniTLab.org.
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