ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,066, issued on Aug. 26.

"Integrated circuit optimization system and method based on multi-phase level-sensitive latches" was invented by Bao Liu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention is related to an integrated circuit optimization system and method wherein an edge-triggered sequential element such as a flip-flop is transformed into an equivalent module including level-sensitive latches of multiple phases, subsequently level-sensitive latch-based optimization techniques are applied such as level-sensitive latch retiming and better-than-worst-case design such as based on prediction and detection of signal prop...