US Patent Issued to Google on May 19 for "Globally irregular power grid" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,739, issued on May 19, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Globally irregular power grid" was invented by Abhinav Ratna (Austin, Texas), Kam-Tou Sio (Zhupei City, Taiwan) and Raja Kumar Martha (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for determining power grid density on an integrated circuit. The method includes determining an initial placement of power switches, logic circuits, the power grid, and the logic grid. The method creates tiles covering the entire integrated circuit and assigns a power grid density and a logic grid density for each tile. Power losses are simulated for the en...