As the old saying goes: There’s more than one way to skin a cat. That patent is over 30 years old and like you said, now days there are ways to represent all types of logic. I imagine that functions such as in fuzzy logic, the original binary logic, and the said “bionic logic” is easy to emulate with the new circuits. It’s obvious that I’m not up to speed on these integrated logic systems, although I do understand the fundamental binary gates, and the “bionic” gate seems like an extension to the regular logic gates, except that it works on the consecutive activation of the inputs. In other words, it is serial format like you say, but it also has the AND operation included in it, making it sort of parallel and serial operation at the same time.
How would one program a octal logic system to function in a similar way to the “bionic logic?”