US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on April 8 for "Location-aware protection system of latches (LAPS-L)" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,675, issued on April 8, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Location-aware protection system of latches (LAPS-L)" was invented by Karthik V Swaminathan (Mount Kisco, N.Y.), Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, N.Y.), Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Bulent Abali (Tenafly, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for providing enhanced location-aware protection of latches in a computing environment are provided. One or more latches are combined in one or more of a plurality of bounding boxes on a two-dimensional circuit design layout based on one or more rules. A location-aware interlea...