ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,496, issued on May 26, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Scalable, optimal retiming of multi-clocked netlists" was invented by Jason Raymond Baumgartner (Austin, Texas), Rohit Dureja (Austin, Texas), Raj Kumar Gajavelly (Warangal, India) and Robert Lowell Kanzelman (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide enhanced systems and methods for implementing enhanced retiming of multiple clock netlists to improve integrated circuit (IC) design quality and provide enhanced retiming with reduced retiming runtime. Disclosed embodiments provide effective an...