ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,589, issued on May 26, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Bounding area planning using a congestion prediction model" was invented by Tian Yang (Los Altos, Calif.) and Shijia Hu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques for bounding area planning using a congestion prediction model. Placement data associated with cells of an IC design is identified. A graph based on the identified placement data is generated. The graph is provided as input to a machine learning model. The machine learning model is trained to predict, based on a given graph associated with cells according...