ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,362, issued on June 16, was assigned to Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Method of obtaining an initial guess for a semiconductor device simulation" was invented by Sung Min Hong (Gwangju, South Korea) and Kwang-Woon Lee (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for generating an initial guess for simulating a semiconductor device. The method includes; (a) setting 1D direction for a 3D semiconductor device to be simulated and 2D cross sections perpendicular to the 1D direction; (b) setting a charge intensity-gate voltage model for the 2D cross sections; (c) numerical...