US Patent Issued to Altera on Sept. 9 for "Circuits and methods for routing crossbars with programmable vias" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,231, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Circuits and methods for routing crossbars with programmable vias" was invented by Atul Maheshwari (Portland, Ore.), Wayson Lowe (Redwood City, Calif.), David Parkhouse (Portland, Ore.), Alexander Andreev (San Jose, Calif.) and Ban Wong (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes first and second routing crossbars. The second routing crossbar includes first conductors routed in a first direction in a first conductive layer and second conductors routed in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction in a se...