ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,685, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seoul National University R&DB Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).
"Flip-flops and integrated circuits including the same" was invented by Dongmin Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongkwon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Dongsuk Jeon (Seoul, South Korea) and Youngdon Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flip-flop includes a first precharge circuit, a first discharge circuit, a first inverter, a second discharge circuit, a second precharge circuit, a third discharge circuit, and a switching prevention circuit. The first prechar...