US Patent Issued to D2S on Sept. 8 for "Using a machine-trained network to perform physical design" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,959, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to D2S INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using a machine-trained network to perform physical design" was invented by Akira Fujimura (Saratoga, Calif.), Nagesh Shirali (San Jose, Calif.) and Donald Oriordan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of some embodiments receives an initial first physical design of a circuit. The method uses a machine-trained network to generate a second physical design that is a prediction of how the first physical design will look at a subsequent manufacturing stage. The method then uses the second physical design to modify the first physical design. Exampl...