ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,158, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Multi-bit flip flop" was invented by Chi-Lin Liu (Taipei, Taiwan), Shang-Chih Hsieh (Yangmei, Taiwan) and Wei-Hsiang Ma (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a multi-bit flip flop, an integrated clock gating circuit connected to the multi-bit flip flop, and a control circuit connected to the integrated clock gating circuit and the multi-bit flip flop. The control circuit compares output data of the multi-bit flip flop corresponding to input data with the input data. The control circuit generates an enabl...