ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,160, issued on March 25, was assigned to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Columbus, Ohio).
"Fabricated layout correlation" was invented by Adam Kimura (Lewis Center, Ohio), Rohan Prabhu (Dublin, Ohio) and Noah Mun (Columbus, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an integrated circuit (IC) assessment method, an artificial intelligence (AI) component comprising at least one artificial neural network (ANN) is trained to transform layout rendering tiles of a rendering of a reference IC into corresponding reference layout image tiles extracted from at least one layout image of the reference IC. Using the trained AI component, standard cell ...