ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,523, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Automated multi-stage design flow based on final quality of result" was invented by Piyush Verma (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Joseph Robb Walston (Durham, N.C.), Robert Lawrence Walker (Boulder, Colo.), Pranay Prakash (Fremont, Calif.), Jagat Patel (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mark Thomas Williams (Los Gatos, Calif.), Navneedh Shivakumar Maudgalya (San Francisco) and Benoit Claudel (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of design iterations are executed for a flow to design a circuit. The design flow includes a sequence of at least two stages. Each st...