US Patent Issued to SILVACO on April 21 for "Physical verification workflow for semiconductor circuit designs" (Ukrainian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,532, issued on April 21, was assigned to SILVACO INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Physical verification workflow for semiconductor circuit designs" was invented by Nikolay Grudanov (Kyiv, Ukraine), Valery Bobovsky (Kyiv, Ukraine), Igor Lopanenko (Kyiv, Ukraine), Yuri Levsky (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Alexander Grudanov (Kyiv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic design automation (EDA) tool and system for physical verification of workflow for semiconductor circuit designs, and methods of using the same is described. Generally, the method includes (i) automatic splitting an integrated circuit (IC) layout into a number of windows...