US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Nov. 3 for "Modifying netlists for device changes in ic designs" (Israeli, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,764, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Modifying netlists for device changes in ic designs" was invented by Itay Israeli (Haifa, Israel), Israel A. Wagner (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Tobias Werner (Weil Im Schoenbuch, Germany), Tai Anh Cao (Austin, Texas), Hed Konen (Elyakhin, Israel) and Avital Rafaevich (Kiryat Ekron, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for efficiently performing device changes directly in an extracted netlist, without requiring independent changes in a schematic design or layout view of the IC de...