ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,503, issued on May 26, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatic robust optimization of circuits" was invented by Chai Wah Wu (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Ann Chen Wu (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.) and James Strom (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to using a trained machine learning model to generate predicted circuit data for a circuit design, and computing an objective function using the predicted circuit data. Optimization of the objective function is performed to generate an optimal solution, and the optimal solution is mapped to the circuit d...