US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 30 for "Hybrid flop tray including different fin size flip-flops" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,877, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hybrid flop tray including different fin size flip-flops" was invented by Ramaprasath Vilangudipitchai (San Diego), Rui Chen (Irvine, Calif.), Seung Hyuk Kang (San Diego) and Venugopal Boynapalli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid flop tray, including: a set of flip-flops cascaded along a scan path, wherein a first subset of one or more of the flip-flops of the set includes fin field effect transistors (FinFETs) each sized with a first number of fins, and a second subset of one or more of the flip-flops of the set includes FinFETs each sized with a ...