US Patent Issued to GlobalFoundries U.S. on Aug. 12 for "Retention flip-flop with multiple positive supply voltage domains" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,427, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Retention flip-flop with multiple positive supply voltage domains" was invented by Dzung T. Tran (Austin, Texas), Navneet K. Jain (Milpitas, Calif.) and Uttam Saha (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed flip-flop includes primary and secondary sections connected to switchable and continuous power supplies, respectively. The primary section includes logic outputting first control signals, a primary latch controlled by the first control signals, and a data output device connected to an output terminal of the primary latch. The second...