US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 15 for "Power staple avoidance for routing via reduction" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,375, issued on April 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Power staple avoidance for routing via reduction" was invented by Hua Xiang (Ossining, N.Y.), Benjamin Neil Trombley (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Gi-Joon Nam (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Gustavo E. Tellez (Hyde Park, N.Y.) and Paul G. Villarrubia (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are provided for providing power staple avoidance during routing in a computing system by a processor. One or more transistor gates may be shifted in each row of an integrated circuit to avoid alignment of cell pins and power staples for executing a rou...