ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,953, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Bit line alignment for the reduction of soft errors" was invented by K. Paul Muller (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Luiz C. Alves (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), William J. Clarke (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Steven R. Carlough (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for bit line alignment during the design of an integrated circuit is provided. Aspects include receiving a chip design for the integrated circuit and receiving an intended orientation of the integrated circuit. Aspects also include identifying one or more elements of the c...