US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on May 27 for "Zigzag detection and handling for integrated circuit design" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,651, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Zigzag detection and handling for integrated circuit design" was invented by Hongxin Kong (College Station, Texas), Wing-Kai Chow (Austin, Texas) and Mehmet Can Yildiz (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure address systems and methods for zigzag detection and handling for integrated circuit designs. Data describing an integrated circuit is accessed. The integrated circuit design comprises a connection path between two or more pins of a net determined based on an initial routing of the net. A zigzag is detec...