ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,745, issued on March 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating integrated circuit placements using neural networks" was invented by Anna Darling Goldie (San Francisco), Azalia Mirhoseini (Mountain View, Calif.), Ebrahim Songhori (San Jose, Calif.), Wenjie Jiang (Mountain View, Calif.), Shen Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Roger David Carpenter (San Francisco), Young-Joon Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Mustafa Nazim Yazgan (Cupertino, Calif.), Chian-min Richard Ho (Palo Alto, Calif.), Quoc V. Le (Sunnyvale, Calif.), James Laudon (Madison, Wis.), Jeffrey Adgate Dean (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kavya Srinivasa Setty (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Omkar Pathak (Mountain View, Calif.)....