US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 15 for "Shift register having low power mode" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,027, issued on July 15, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Shift register having low power mode" was invented by Win-San Khwa (Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Lun Lu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Jui-Jen Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Meng-Fan Chang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure introduces a shift register is configured to enter a low power mode by disabling a portion of flip-flops (FFs) that handles upper bits of input data. The shift register includes first FF(s), second FF(s) and gating circuit. The first flip-flop (FF), includes input terminal coupled to first portion of input ...