US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on June 16 for "Integrated circuit using multiple and different process corners" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,367, issued on June 16, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Integrated circuit using multiple and different process corners" was invented by Alexander W. Schaefer (Austin, Texas), Robin Andrew Joyce (Austin, Texas), Shaun M. Kittle (Austin, Texas), Scott Eugene Swanstrom (Austin, Texas) and Josef Alexander Czaban (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for creating layout for semiconductor chips are described. In various implementations, an integrated circuit includes at least a first functional block and a second functional block. ...