ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,600, issued on June 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Shared clock dual edge-triggered flip-flop circuit" was invented by Amit Agarwal (Hillsboro, Ore.), Steven K. Hsu (Lake Oswego, Ore.) and Ram Kumar Krishnamurthy (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include an apparatus having a flip-flop circuit, which can include a first tristate inverter, a second tristate inverter including an input node coupled to an input node of the first tristate inverter; a first additional inverter including, and a second additional inverter including an output node coupled to an output node of the first a...