ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,507, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Machine learning-based hotspot prediction in electronic design automation (EDA) applications" 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 computing system may include a hotspot processing engine and a hotspot prediction engine. The hotspot processing engine may be configured to access an input data set of hotspot locations on manufactured circuits of a circuit design, correlate the hotspot locations to layout data for the circuit design, and extract fragment feature vectors for the h...