ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,530, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Integrated circuit including standard cell and method of manufacturing the integrated circuit" was invented by Jisu Yu (Seoul, South Korea), Jaeho Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sanghoon Baek (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeongyu You (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seungyoung Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Seungman Lim (Siheung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes placing standard cells based on a standard cell library and generating layout data, and placing a filler cell selected from among a first type filler cell and a se...