ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,456, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Circuit component sharing protocol" was invented by Bharath Kumar Singareddy (Bangalore, India), Srinivas Theertham (Bangalore, India), Abhijit Bhattacharya (Bengaluru, India), Visvesvaraya Appala Pentakota (Bangalore, India), Manoj Katta Venkata (Bangaluru, India) and Soumi Paul (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a first D flip-flop including a first data output, a first negative edge-triggered clock input, and a first reset input, and a second D flip-flop including a second data output, a second negative edge-triggered cloc...