ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,852, issued on Aug. 4.
"System and method for reducing circuit elements in high-performance flip-flops" was invented by Steve Dao (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A latch circuit comprising a tristate driver and a storage feedback loop and having minimal circuit elements is disclosed. The tristate driver and feedback loop couple to internal nodes of a separate latch circuit to reduce total circuit element count by collapsing elements with common functionality into a single circuit element. The latch circuit presents only one transistor gate load to a clock signal, and the output of the separate latch is coupled to the input of ...