ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,023, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Global Unichip Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Chip power consumption analyzer and analyzing method thereof" was invented by Sin-Huei Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Cheng-Hong Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chien-Cheng Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yen-Chih Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hu-Cheng Jiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a chip power consumption analyzer and an analyzation method thereof. The analyzation method includes the following. Design information of a circuit is received. A plurality of clock arriving times of a p...