ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,812, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Changxin Memory Technologies Inc. (Hefei, China).

"Method and apparatus for checking signal line" was invented by Min Min (Hefei, China), Wei Jiang (Hefei, China), Li Bai (Hefei, China) and Chuanjiang Chen (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for checking a signal line are provided. The method includes: obtaining custom design information of a target signal line in a circuit schematic, and generating a layout design rule corresponding to the target signal line based on the custom design information; checking whether the target signal line meets the layout desig...