Memory device including function performing means

Claim 1

A MEMORY DEVICE HAVING A PLURALITY OF STORAGE REGISTERS COMPOSED OF STORAGE LOOPS ARRANGED IN COLUMNS AND ROWS, WRITING MEANS COUPLED TO EACH STORAGE REGISTER FOR STORING SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF INFORMATION, READING MEANS COUPLED TO EACH REGISTER FOR INTERROGATING THE STORED SIGNALS AND SUPPLYING OUTPUT SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INFORMATION STORED, CONTROL MEANS COUPLED TO THE READING MEANS AND WRITING MEANS, SAID CONTROL MEANS OPERATING THE READING MEANS AND WRITING MEANS TO CAUSE THE READING MEANS TO READ SELECTIVELY TWO OR MORE STORAGE REGISTERS SIMULTANEOUSLY AND TO CAUSE THE WRITING MEANS TO STORE SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF INFORMATION IN ONE OR MORE SELECTED REGISTERS SIMULTANEOUSLY, SAID CONTROL MEANS OPERATING THE WRITING MEANS AND THE READING MEANS SIMULTANEOUSLY, FUNCTION DETERMINING MEANS FOR PERFORMING A LOGICAL OPERATION IN MEMORY COUPLED TO RECEIVE SIGNALS FROM THE READING MEANS, THE FUNCTION DETERMINING MEANS RESPONDING TO THE SIGNALS FROM THE READING MEANS TO ASCERTAIN A FUNCTION AND SUPPLY OUTPUT SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FUNCTION TO AN EXTERNAL LOAD DEVICE AND TO THE WRITING MEANS, THE WRITING MEANS RESPONDING TO THE SIGNALS FROM THE FUNCTION DETERMINING MEANS TO STORE SIGNALS IN A SELECTED STORAGE REGISTER OR REGISTERS AS DETERMINED BY THE CONTROL MEANS, SAID WRITING MEANS HAVING IN EACH COLUMN A FIRST LINE CONNECTED TO A PLURALITY OF STORAGE LOOPS AND PERSISTENT CURRENTS IN ONE DIRECTION ARE ESTABLISHED IN THE LOOPS TO REPRESENT A BINARY ZERO AND PERSISTENT CURRENTS IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION ARE ESTAB-