ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,179, issued on July 28, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Path margin monitoring" was invented by Kranthi Kandula (Telangana, India), Ramalingam Kolisetti (Andhra Pradesh, India), Firooz Massoudi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Anubhav Sinha (Telangana, India) and Sadashiv Chimmad (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining a plurality of threshold margins corresponding to a plurality of functional paths in an electronic circuit. The method further includes storing the plurality of threshold margins corresponding to the plurality of functional paths in a memory. The method further includes re...