US Patent Issued to D2S on Nov. 18 for "Generating and display an animation of a predicted overlap shape in an IC design" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,283, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to D2S INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating and display an animation of a predicted overlap shape in an IC design" was invented by Donald Oriordan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Akira Fujimura (Saratoga, Calif.) and George Janac (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for computing and displaying of minimum overlap for semiconductor layer interfaces, such as metal-via and metal-contact. The method leverages a machine-trained network (e.g., a trained neural network) to quickly, but accurately, infer the contours for the manufactured shapes across a range of process ...