ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,631, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).
"Free-form layout feature retargeting" was invented by Vladislav Liubich (West Linn, Ore.), Avneet Kaur (Fremont, Calif.) and George P Lippincott (Lake Oswego, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosed technology relate to techniques for retargeting free-form layout features. In a retargeting process, anchor points are selected on boundary lines of layout features based on one or more predetermined conditions. Property values comprising spacing values and linewidth values for each of the anchor points are then deter...