US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 22 for "Enhanced alignment for global placement in a circuit" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,725, issued on April 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Enhanced alignment for global placement in a circuit" was invented by Alexey Y Lvov (Congers, N.Y.), Gi-Joon Nam (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Benjamin Neil Trombley (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Lakshmi N Reddy (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) and Paul G Villarrubia (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are provided for enhanced initial global placement in a circuit design in a computing system by a processor. A wire length minimization may be determined based on maximum population density constraints as a single player game theory for global pla...