ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,229, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor integrated circuit, semiconductor device, and semiconductor memory device" was invented by Mikio Shiraishi (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a clock signal is input to clock terminals of first and second flip-flops of a semiconductor integrated circuit. A first signal output from a Q terminal of the second flip-flop is input to a D terminal of the first flip-flop. An inverter inverts a second signal output from a Q terminal of the first flip-flop, and a third signal obtained by inverting the second signal i...