US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Nov. 3 for "Retargeting-aware fill" (New York, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,777, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Amork, N.Y.).

"Retargeting-aware fill" was invented by David Wolpert (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Matthew T. Guzowski (Essex Junction, Vt.), Alexander Joel Suess (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Robert John Allen (Jericho, Vt.), Joseph Koone (Poukeepsie, N.Y.), Smitha Reddy (Fishkill, N.Y.) and Margaret Annabelle Allen (Jericho, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing retargeting-aware metal fill optimization for an IC layout. A disclosed embodiment enables a metal f...