US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 8 for "Flip-flops having strong transistors and weak transistors" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,170, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Flip-flops having strong transistors and weak transistors" was invented by I-Wen Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Chih Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jia-Hong Gao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuang-Ching Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzu-Ying Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jerry Chang Jui Kao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first clocked forwarding-switch and a second clocked forwarding-switch each implemented with strong transistors. The integrated circuit also includes a first clocked inverter and a second cl...