ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,252, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Adjacent cell routing resource connectivity" was invented by Raheel Azmat (Cork, Ireland), Cristian Vasile Pavel (Carrigaline, Ireland) and Vasisht Mantra Vadi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IC includes a first cell including a first cell net unconnected within the first cell. The IC also includes at least one cell adjacent the first cell. The at least one cell includes a first interconnect unconnected to any nets within the at least one cell. The first cell net is connected together through the first interconnect. The first cell net may be on at least on...