Looks to me like a clever invention in 1975 that would have no purpose today. The patent app states that the rationale for the special circuits it describes is that to get the desired effect with conventional binary logic would be "difficult or even economically if not technically infeasible to build such processor (sic)."

Doesn't that statement just reek of shortsightedness and hubris? In fact with large scale integration, not to mention programmable general-purpose processors that can simulate "bionic logic" quite handily, programmers do "bionic logic" thousands of times a day and don't even notice. Because all it really consists of (if I understand the patent app, admittedly a risky proposition) is receiving a serial stream of three bits and assembling them into a three-bit binary word which, according the laws of God and Man, will inherently have an integer value of between zero and seven. 000 through 111.

That's all "bionic logic" really is, as far as I can tell. You get an integer output whose value depends on the order and value of incoming bits. That's binary data, bunkie.

What can you do with it, Johannes? Well, actually, quite a lot, considering that it's a real thing that's quite mundane yet highly useful in the real world. Just not under the brand name "Bionic Logic®".