ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,148, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Architecture estimation device, architecture estimation method, and computer readable medium" was invented by Ryo Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Hidetomo Iwagawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reception unit (110) receives NN information (151) and non-functional requirements (152) demanded for a circuit. A search unit (120) generates combinations of interlayer architectures and intra-layer architectures as architecture combinations (121). Then, the search unit (120) searches for a plurality of architecture combination candidates (122) that reduce an amount of de...