US Patent Issued to D2S on May 12 for "Generating routes for an integrated circuit design with non-preferred direction curvilinear wiring" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,046, issued on May 12, was assigned to D2S INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating routes for an integrated circuit design with non-preferred direction curvilinear wiring" was invented by Akira Fujimura (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide an integrated circuit (IC) that has a novel non-preferred direction (NPD) wiring architecture. In some embodiments, the IC includes a substrate and multiple wiring layers, which include a first set of one or more wiring layers with no preferred wiring directions, and a second set of one or more wiring layers with preferred wiring directions. In some...