ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,172, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Optimized layout cell" was invented by Ruey-Bin Sheen (Taichung, Taiwan), Tien-Chien Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chuan-Yao Tan (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes an example method for cell placement in an integrated circuit (IC) layout design. The method includes defining a layout unit for a circuit implementation and arranging multiple layout units into a layout cell. The method also includes editing the layout cell to connect a first set of the layout units to be representative of the c...