US Patent Issued to Siemens Industry Software on March 17 for "Correct-by-construction filler cell insertion" (Egyptian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,354, issued on March 17, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Correct-by-construction filler cell insertion" was invented by Fady Fouad (Heliopolis, Egypt).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a computing system implementing a yield enhancer tool to extract characteristics of cells from a physical layout design for an integrated circuit, determine locations of vacant regions in the physical layout design, apply electrical design rules for manufacture of the integrated circuit to the extracted characteristics in order to identify cells in the physical layout design that would violate the...