US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, TSMC NANJING on July 29 for "Method for forming a timing circuit arrangements for flip-flops" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,069, issued on July 29, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and TSMC NANJING COMPANY Ltd. (Nanjing, China).

"Method for forming a timing circuit arrangements for flip-flops" was invented by Huaixin Xian (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Qingchao Meng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yang Zhou (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shang-Chih Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first time delay circuit, a second time delay circuit, and a master-slave flip-flop having a gated input circuit and a transmission gate. The transmission gate is configured to receive the first clock signal an...