ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,766, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Localization of logic containing instrumentation in circuit emulation" was invented by Prashant Saxena (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: receiving a representation of a circuit design; grouping combinational logic portions of the circuit design into clusters corresponding to circuit portions of the circuit design; constructing a timing graph based on timing arcs through the clusters; determining, by a processing device, one or more partitions from among partitions of an emulation system to place a cluster of the circuit design ...