ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,281, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).
"Low area and power multi-bit flip-flop" was invented by Arnab Khawas (Bangalore, India), Madhavan Pissay (Hyderabad, India) and Badarish Subbannavar (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein relate to device testing using scan chains including various flip-flop devices in a multi-bit flip-flop configuration. A circuit device included herein includes a first flip-flop sub-circuit and a second flip-flop sub-circuit. The first flip-flop sub-circuit is coupled to receive a clock signal and an input, and the second flip-flop cir...