ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,547, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sense amplifier based flip-flop" was invented by Tianyu Tang (San Diego), Wei-Yen Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Janus Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Rui Li (San Diego), De Lu (San Diego) and Venkat Narayanan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a first sense amplifier having a first data input, a second data input, a clock input configured to receive a first clock signal, a first output, and a second output. The system also includes a second sense amplifier having a first data input, a second data input, a clock input configured to receive a second clock si...