US Patent Issued to ANSYS on Feb. 24 for "Extraction based on heterogeneous meshing techniques" (American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,506, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ANSYS INC. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"Extraction based on heterogeneous meshing techniques" was invented by Maxim Ershov (San Jose, Calif.) and Vitaliy Schetinin (Warsaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software tool used to assess and/or simulate an integrated circuit ("IC") layout employs heterogeneous resistance extraction and/or meshing, to combine advantages of a relatively compact parasitics file size and robustness for effective simulation and electrical performance analysis. In one embodiment, filters are automatically applied (or are manually specified by a user) to select structures,...