US Patent Issued to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE on Jan. 13 for "System and method for verification and validation of integrated circuit" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,869, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Columbus, Ohio).

"System and method for verification and validation of integrated circuit" was invented by Adam Kimura (Lewis Center, Ohio), Vince A. McKinsey (Hilliard, Ohio) and Adam R. Waite (Centerville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an integrated circuit (IC) analysis, a reference IC layout is stored. Instructions are readable and executable by an electronic processor to perform an IC analysis method, including: receiving layer images of a physical IC; extracting polygons depicted in the layer images; detecting errors in the physical IC by applying hom...