US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Aug. 25 for "Power routing reduction in circuit design for electrostatic discharge checking" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,998, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Power routing reduction in circuit design for electrostatic discharge checking" was invented by Nicholas Stewart Palmer (Beaverton, Ore.), Chih Yi Huang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), De-Shiuan Chiou (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu-Chen Lin (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Jeffrey Ellis Byrd (Greensboro, N.C.), Charles Samuel McFalls Jr. (Graham, N.C.), Chi Lo (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chi-Chun Chuang (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a computation associated with a layout of a circuit design includes, in part: generating a graph ha...