ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,426, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Flip-flop cell" was invented by Shao-Yu Steve Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chien-Te Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shang-Chih Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Nick Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of circuit elements in or on the substrate. The circuit elements are defined by standard layout cells selected from a cell library. The circuit elements including a plurality of flip-flops. Each flip-flop has a data input terminal, a data output terminal, a clock in...