US Patent Issued to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE on Feb. 18 for "Recovery of a hierarchical functional representation of an integrated circuit" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,482, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Columbus, Ohio).

"Recovery of a hierarchical functional representation of an integrated circuit" was invented by Adam G. Kimura (Westerville, Ohio), Andrew S. Elliott (Columbus, Ohio) and Daniel A. Perkins (Lewis Center, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Register Transfer Level (RTL) representation is recovered from a netlist representing an integrated circuit (IC). The netlist is converted to a graph comprising nodes belonging to a set of node types and edges connecting the nodes. The set of node types includes an instance node type representing an electronic c...