ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,765, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to HANGZHOU SILAN MICROELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Method for flip-flop unit" was invented by Weiquan Song (Hangzhou, China) and Xiangdong Chen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a flip-flop unit design method comprising: analyzing signal delay of a clock control signal in a digital circuit; selecting a clock gating circuit among a plurality of types of clock gating circuits according to the signal delay, and coupling at least one edge-triggered flip-flop and the selected clock gating circuit to be a flip-flop unit, wherein the plurality of types of clock gatin...