ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,884, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS (Rousset, France).

"Latch device, in particular for row decoding and column decoding of an EEPROM memory plane" was invented by Francois Tailliet (Fuveau, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The latch device includes an RS type latch flip-flop capable of being supplied between a first supply voltage and a second supply voltage which is lower than the first supply voltage and having first and second flip-flop inputs and a flip-flop output connected to the output terminal. A control module positions the latch flip-flop in a set state or in a reset state when the...