ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,432, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ASSIER CONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit device, method and system" was invented by Cheng-Yu Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yung-Chen Chien (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jia-Hong Gao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jerry Chang Jui Kao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a master latch circuit having a data output, a slave latch circuit having a data input electrically coupled to the data output of the master latch circuit, and a clock circuit electrically coupled to the master latch circuit and...