US Patent Issued to GlobalFoundries U.S. on July 28 for "Parameterized cell with multiple layout configuration options" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,188, issued on July 28, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Parameterized cell with multiple layout configuration options" was invented by Manubhai Patel Jignesh (Milpitas, Calif.), James A. Culp (New Paltz, N.Y.), Bradley A. Orner (Ben Lomond, Calif.) and Haritez Narisetty (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a process design kit (PDK) product and also a design system and a design method that employ the PDK product to layout IC designs including 3D IC designs. The PDK product includes a storage medium and a PDK, including a library of cells, stored thereon. The cells can include paramet...