ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,814, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Performing automatic sign-off for clock gating verification using toggle cover properties" was invented by Nishant Chauhan (Kurukshetra, India), Sudipta Kundu (Portland, Ore.) and Hanish Singla (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method or system for clock gating verification of a circuit design. The system identifies a set of sequential components of the circuit design, and a set of nets of the circuit design. Each net is configured to provide a signal to a clock pin of a sequential component. The system then identifies a subset of nets that are a...