Magnetic parallel comparison means for comparing a test word with a plurality of stored words

Claim 1

SIGNAL RESPONSIVE APPARATUS FOR THE PARALLEL COMPARISON OF A MULTI-BIT TEST WORD TO A PLURALITY OF MULTI-BIT STORED WORDS COMPRISING: A PLURALITY OF BISTABLE MAGNETIC MEMORY ELEMENTS ARRANGED IN A MATRIX ARRAY OF ROWS AND COLUMNS WITH A MEMORY ELEMENT AT THE INTERSECTION OF EACH ROW AND COLUMN; AN ADDITIONAL COLUMN OF BISTABLE MAGNETIC NEGATION ELEMENTS HAVING ONE NEGATION ELEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH EACH OF SAID ROWS; AN INPUT REGISTER HAVING A PLURALITY OF BISTABLE STAGES FOR HOLDING THE BINARY INFORMATION REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BITS OF THE TEST WORD; A SEPARATE COLUMN CONDUCTOR COUPLING EACH STAGE OF SAID INPUT REGISTER SEPARATELY TO THE MEMORY ELEMENT OF EACH COLUMN IN A FIRST MAGNETIC SENSE; SEPARATE PAIRS OF A SET CONDUCTOR AND AN OUTPUT CONDUCTOR EACH SERIALLY COUPLING ALL THE MEMORY ELEMENTS OF EACH ROW IN A FIRST OR SECOND MAGNETIC SENSE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BINARY INFORMATION STORED IN EACH MEMORY ELEMENT OF SAID ROW, EACH OF SAID MEMORY ELEMENT OUTPUT CONDUCTORS ADDITIONALLY COUPLED TO THE ROW ASSOCIATED NEGATION ELEMENT; AN OUTPUT REGISTER HAVING A PLURALITY OF BISTABLE STAGES FOR HOLDING THE BINARY INFORMATIION REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMPARISON OF THE TEST WORD TO THE PLURALITY OF STORED WORDS; A SEPARATE OUTPUT CONDUCTOR COUPLING EACH STAGE OF SAID OUTPUT REGISTER TO A SEPARATE ROW ASSOCIATED NEGATION ELEMENT BY WAY OF AN AND GATE; A SET LINE SERIALLY COUPLING ALL OF THE NEGATION CORES; FIRST SIGNAL GENERATING MEANS COUPLING TO ALL THE SET CONDUCTORS OF SAID ROWS OF MEMORY ELEMENTS A SET PULSE SETTING ALL THE MEMORY ELEMENTS IN A FIRST OR SECOND MAGNETIC SENSE AS DETERMINED BY THE MAGNETIC COUPLING SENSE OF SAID SET CONDUCTORS WITH SAID MEMORY ELEMENTS; SECOND SIGNAL GENERATING MEANS COUPLING TO SAID NEGATIION ELEMENT SET LINE A SET PULSE SETTING SAID NEGATION CORES INTO A SET MAGMETIC STATE; THIRD SIGNAL GENERATING MEANS COUPLING TO SAID INPUT REGISTER A GATE PULSE COUPLING BI-