US Patent Issued to Siemens Industry Software on Feb. 17 for "Machine learning-based down selection of candidate hotspot locations of circuit designs" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,913, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Machine learning-based down selection of candidate hotspot locations of circuit designs" was invented by Yuansheng Ma (Fremont, Calif.) and Le Hong (Benicia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include the steps of accessing an input data set of hotspot locations on manufactured circuits of a circuit design. The hotspot locations may be confirmed through a high precision imaging process from a set of candidate locations of the circuit design determined by a low precision imaging process. The method may further include correlating th...