US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Oct. 27 for "Methods and apparatus for netlist decompilation" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,763, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute.

"Methods and apparatus for netlist decompilation" was invented by Katie Liszewski (Columbus, Ohio), Tim McDonley (Columbus, Ohio), Josh Delozier (Columbus, Ohio), Andrew Elliott (Columbus, Ohio), Dylan Jones (Columbus, Ohio), Matt Sutter (Columbus, Ohio) and Adam Kimura (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a computing device may comprise receiving a netlist and converting primitive tables and library instances of the netlist to behavioral code. The netlist may be flattened by replacing sub-module instances with respective code. A numb...