ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,166, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Match-slave latch with skewed clock" was invented by Hyunsung Hong (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuits, systems, and methods are described herein for generating master clock signals and slave clock signals for controlling a flip-flop having a master latch and a slave latch. A circuit includes a master latch configured to latch an input data signal and to output a data latch signal based on a master clock signal. The circuit also includes a slave latch coupled to the master latch and configured to generate an out...