ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,348, issued on Aug. 26, 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 provided here includes a N-bit flip-flop and a first clock cell. The N-bit flip-flop includes first cell of a first bit and a second cell of a second bit. An output signal from the first cell is inputted into the second cell in response to a first clock sig...