ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,816, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Constraint file-based novel framework for net-based checking technique" was invented by Chao-Min Wang (Zhubei, Taiwan), Ru-Lin Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Cheng-Lin Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yuan-Wen Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hung-Shih Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Net-based checking of a circuit design includes obtaining a circuit design comprising a plurality of polygons. Further, a shape of a first polygon of the plurality of polygons, and a shape of a second polygon of the plurality of polygons is determined. The shape of the first polygo...