ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,857, issued on March 24, was assigned to Tokyo Electron Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Method for automated standard cell design" was invented by Lars Liebmann (Mechanicville, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes: receiving data representative of an electrical circuit including an arrangement of devices, inputs, outputs, and power sources; determining a minimum number of segments based on the received data; grouping the devices into N segments based on common features shared between two or more of the devices, where N is equal to the minimum number of segments; and generating discrete portions of the grouped devic...