ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,350, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Dynamic power efficient low power flip-flop" was invented by Sai Yaswanth Divvela (Guntur, India), Amit Verma (Hyderabad, India) and Basannagouda Somanath Reddy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic flip-flop circuit with a feedback loop includes a input tristate circuit configured to receive a data signal and a clock signal to output a tristate output data signal. The dynamic flip-flop circuit also includes a feedforward circuit configured to receive the tristate output data signal as input to output a feedforward output data signal. The...