ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,107, issued on April 29, was assigned to SK keyfoundry Inc. (Cheongju-si, South Korea).
"Low-power retention flip-flop" was invented by Wan-Chul Kong (Gwangju-si, South Korea), Sungbum Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Keesik Ahn (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-power retention flip-flop is provided. The low-power retention flip-flop may include: a master latch configured to output an input signal based on first control signals; a slave latch configured to output the signal from the master latch based on second control signals; and a control logic configured to generate the first control signals based o...