ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,762, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to D2S INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Interactive compaction tool for electronic design automation" 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: "A method for manufacturing-aware editing of circuit layouts driven by predictions regarding predicted manufactured wafer contours generated by a machine-trained network. The method allows for fast edit loops in interactive editing timeframes, in which the predicted manufactured wafer contours corresponding to design edits are presented within seconds of ...