ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,456, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Bidirectional counter and integrated circuit including the same" was invented by Jaeha Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Bai-Sun Kong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Bomin Joo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a bidirectional counter and a method of generating output data. The bidirectional counter may include at least one first flip-flop configured to generate, based on at least one first local clock, at least one first bit including...