ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,358, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Method and system for automatic bug localization" was invented by Maayan Ziv (Haifa, Israel), Ziyad Hanna (Haifa, Israel), Alon Hemo (Atlit, Israel) and Wael Mousa (Nof Hagalil, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated debugging method includes obtaining waveforms of signals recorded during execution of one or a plurality of tests on a first properly functioning version of a design and on a second faulty version of the design, extracting behavior patterns of the signals in the waveforms of the first design and behavior patterns of the s...