US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 26 for "Hierarchy-aware integrated circuit layout design" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,057, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Hierarchy-aware integrated circuit layout design" was invented by Tomer Abraham Cohen (Binyamina, Israel), Muhammad Suleiman (Nazareth, Israel), Doris Bittruf (Westford, Vt.) and Noam Jungmann (Holon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach, a processor identifies a current cell depicted in an integrated circuit layout tool, the current cell of a hierarchical layout comprises a plurality of cells. A processor generates an overlay, the overlay comprising an abstraction of at least one object present in a higher level of the hier...