ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,624, issued on July 29, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Systems and methods for multi-bit memory with embedded logic" was invented by Guru Prasad (Austin, Texas) and Sachin Kumar (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method are provided that include a standard cell with multiple input and output storage elements, such as flip flops, latches, etc., with some combination logic interconnected between them. In embodiments, the slave latches on input flip flops are replaced with a fewer number latches at a downstream node(s) of the combination logic resulting in improved ...