ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,678, issued on June 3, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit with compact layout arrangement" was invented by Yu-Tung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Chun Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tung-Kai Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Te Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih-Yun Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hung-Ming Chu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yi-Feng Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) may include a plurality of functional blocks, and each functional block of the plurality of functional blocks may include hardware circuits, wherein the plurality of functional blocks may include a first functional bl...