ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,571, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and system for simulating and verifying layout based on distribution" was invented by Hyunjae Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jongwon Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), In Huh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Satbyul Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Younggu Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Yunjun Nam (Suwon-si, South Korea), Changwook Jeong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Moonhyun Cha (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for simulating a layout of an integrated circuit manufactured by a semiconductor process includes extractin...