US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Sept. 30 for "Low-power flip flop circuit" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,873, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Low-power flip flop circuit" was invented by Po-Chia Lai (Fremont, Calif.), Meng-Hung Shen (Zhubei, Taiwan), Chi-Lin Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Stefan Rusu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yan-Hao Chen (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Jerry Chang-Jui Kao (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flip-flop circuit configured to latch an input signal to an output signal is disclosed. The circuit includes a first latch circuit; and a second latch circuit coupled to the first latch circuit. In some embodiments, in response to a clock signal, the fir...