ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,386, issued on July 29, was assigned to AIP TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Electronic file parsing and generation system and method" was invented by Tung-Yang Chen (ZhuBei, Taiwan) and Chu Hsu (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an electronic file parsing and generation system and method. The system specializes in processing a GDSII file, parsing a library, a structure and an element code therein, and storing parsed data in a relational database. The method also allows the extraction of the parsed data from the database to generate a new electronic file that are fully compatible wi...