Article: Japanese Inventor Develops Flip-Flop, Integrated Circuit

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 29 -- Makoto Mori of Kawasaki, Japan, has developed a flip-flop, integrated circuit.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flip-flop which eliminates a reset wiring to prevent complication of a wiring in a large-scale integration or to increase the number of channels used for a signal wiring, an integrated circuit using the same, and a flip-flop resetting method, are provided."An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "The flip-flop performing a reset operation by detecting a change in a power supply voltage includes a state retaining node that stores a high level voltage or a low level voltage, and a reset signal generation ...