US Patent Issued to D2S on June 23 for "Interactively presenting for minimum overlap shapes in an IC design" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,340, issued on June 23, was assigned to D2S INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Interactively presenting for minimum overlap shapes in an IC design" was invented by Donald Oriordan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Akira Fujimura (Saratoga, Calif.) and George Janac (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for computing and displaying of minimum overlap for semiconductor layer interfaces, such as metal-via and metal-contact. The method leverages a machine-trained network (e.g., a trained neural network) to quickly, but accurately, infer the contours for the manufactured shapes across a range of process variations. T...