ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,412, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio).

"Standard cell differentiation using topology and transistor attributes" was invented by Timothy A. McDonley (Grove City, Ohio), Josh Delozier (Columbus, Ohio), Benjamin Hayden (North Canton, Ohio) and Kurtis Wickey (Springfield, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to standard cell differentiation using topology and transistor attributes, a first circuit representation of an unidentified cell is received. The first circuit representation of the unidentified cell is converted to a first graph. A second circuit representation of each of...