ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,360, issued on June 16, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Digital design simulation accelerator" was invented by David Jones (Ottawa) and Shona Weldon (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simulation acceleration system is provided. The system includes a simulation accelerator that receives compiled code of a design that includes register transfer level (RTL) components and testbench components. The compiled code includes instructions for simulating behaviors of the design. The simulation accelerator schedules the instructions to be executed by multiple processors based on simulation events occurring ...