ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,949, issued on Sept. 8.

"System and method for electronic circuit emulation" was invented by Steven F. Hoover (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method transforms a model of electronic circuit to improve emulation speed and/or reduce emulation area. The model may be divided into partitions; a sequence of storage elements may be created on a partition boundary to allow a partition to process the contents of the storage elements. The disposition of the sequence may correspond to a connection between hardware emulation elements to compensate for latencies therebetween."

The patent was filed on Aug. 22, 2022,...