ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,856, issued on March 24, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for generating designs of circuits that include buffers using machine learning" was invented by Rongjian Liang (Austin, Texas) and Haoxing Ren (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed herein for designing a circuit. The techniques include receiving a specification for a driver and a plurality of sinks; executing, based on the driver and the plurality of sinks, a machine learning model that predicts at least one of a size, a location, or a delay target of one or more buffers; generating a tree that includes a plurali...