ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,157, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Footprint for multi-bit flip flop" was invented by Po-Chun Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chih-Liang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jerry Chang-Jui Kao (Taipei, Taiwan) and Tzu-Ying Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes first bit cells, second bit cells, and clock cells. Each of first bit cells is arranged in one of multiple first cell rows having a first row height. Each of the second bit cells is arranged in one of multiple second cells rows having a second row ...