ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,864, issued on April 7, was assigned to Worldwide Pro Ltd. (Hong Kong).
"Determining IR drops for circuit networks using Barycenter model" was invented by William Wai Yan Ho (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Any primitive cells or blocks can be represented physically by a Barycenter compact model (or Barycenter model), and any black box model can also be physically represented by a Barycenter compact model physically. A boundary condition between blocks is formulated by the Barycenter compact model. Boundary condition problems between blocks can be limited within two levels only if using the Barycenter compact model."...