Article: Japanese Inventor Develops Flip-Flop Circuit

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 30 -- Akira Akahori of Tokyo has developed a frequency divider using the flip-flop circuit.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a flip-flop circuit where latched complementary signals of first and second output terminals are inverted by complementary first and second input pulses, the conductivity of a first load transistor connected to the first output terminal is controlled by the signal from the second output terminal, and the conductivity of a second load transistor connected to the second output terminal is controlled by the signal from the first output terminal."

The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,417,466 on Aug. 26.

The patent has ...

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