US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Jan. 27 for "Network assignment based on non-default design rules" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,361, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network assignment based on non-default design rules" was invented by Derong Liu (Austin, Texas), Wing-Kai Chow (Austin, Texas), Mehmet Can Yildiz (Austin, Texas) and Charles Jay Alpert (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide for assigning portions of a net based on one or more non-default design rules, which may be part of electronic design automation (EDA). For example, a net of a circuit design can be a clock network, and the assigning can comprise a layer assignment process, a track assignment process, or...