ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,770, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Timing analysis of a digital integrated circuit using intent based timing constraints" was invented by Hemlata Gupta (Hopewell Jct, N.Y.), Kerim Kalafala (Rhinebeck, N.Y.), Manish Verma (Bangalore, India), Jennifer Elizabeth Basile (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Adil Bhanji (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Eric Foreman (Fairfax, Vt.) and Jack Dilullo (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Timing analysis of a digital integrated circuit using intent based timing constraints includes defining a plurality of intent groups for an integrated circuit design...