ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,013, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Flip-flop circuit, driver circuit, display panel, display device, input/output device, and data processing device" was invented by Kouhei Toyotaka (Atsugi, Japan), Kazunori Watanabe (Machida, Japan), Susumu Kawashima (Atsugi, Japan), Daisuke Kubota (Atsugi, Japan), Tetsuji Ishitani (Atsugi, Japan) and Akio Yamashita (Atsugi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flip-flop circuit is provided. A driver circuit is provided. The flip-flop circuit includes first to fifth input terminals and first to third output terminals, the first input ...