ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,778, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Wiring pattern-based parasitic capacitance extraction" was invented by David J. Widiger (Pflugerville, Texas), Ronald Dennis Rose (Essex Junction, Vt.), Steven Joseph Kurtz (Austin, Texas), Susan Elizabeth Cellier (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.) and Lewis William Dewey III (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target wire is separated into one set of segments based on effective spaces of crossing wires at one target-wire side, and another set of segments based on effective spaces of crossing wires at another target-wire side. Eff...