ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,907, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Reno, Nev.).

"Reducing component database size for reduced run-set evaluation" was invented by Ilan Shusterman (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel) and Yuri Geogdjaev (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods parse integrated circuit (IC) design files to identify boundary conditions between components. The boundary conditions may correspond to connections between different components, at various levels of the IC, that may create antennas during one or more manufacturing processes. The identified boundary conditions may be extracted from the design files...