ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,443, 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).

"Sense amplifier flip-flop 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: "A sense amplifier flip-flop includes a first stage configured to generate, in response to a rising edge of a clock signal, a first latch signal and a second latch signal by pulling down a first pull-down node or a second pull-down node ac...