US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 11 for "Clock gating circuit for dual-edge-triggered flip-flops" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,752, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Clock gating circuit for dual-edge-triggered flip-flops" was invented by Yimai Peng (Cary, N.C.), Robert Joseph Vachon (Zebulon, N.C.), Daniel Yingling (Apex, N.C.) and Keith Alan Bowman (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, including: a clock gating circuit (CGC), including: a clock gating device configured to selectively gate/pass a selected clock signal based on an enable signal to generate an output clock signal; and a clock selection circuit configured to select a non-complementary clock signal or a complementary clock signal to generat...