US Patent Issued to Altera on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for circuit design dependent programmable maximum junction temperatures" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,331, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for circuit design dependent programmable maximum junction temperatures" was invented by Archanna Srinivasan (San Jose, Calif.), Rajiv Mongia (Portland, Ore.), Ravi Gutala (San Jose, Calif.), Kaushik Chanda (San Jose, Calif.), Gurvinder Tiwana (Toronto), Vadali Mahadev (San Jose, Calif.) and Mahesh A. Iyer (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for generating a circuit design for an integrated circuit using a circuit design tool. The circuit design tool determines maximum junction temperatures for ...