ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,022, issued on April 29, was assigned to Center for Deep Learning in Electronics Manufacturing (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for generating shape data for electronic designs" was invented by Suhas Pillai (San Jose, Calif.), Thang Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.) and Ajay Baranwal (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generation of shape data for a set of electronic designs include inputting a set of shape data, where the set of shape data represents a set of shapes for a device fabrication process. A convolutional neural network is used on the set of shape data to determine a set of generated shape...