ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,877, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GLOBAL UNICHIP Corp. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for estimating performance values of chips, computing system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Ting-Hao Wang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Pei-Ju Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Mark Po-Hung Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Shuo-Hung Hsu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Shu-Hsiang Yang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating performance values of chips includes: (A) using oscillation period vectors of a to-be-divided set t...