US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 9 for "Timing-aware and simultaneous optimization of latch clustering and placement in an integrated circuit" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,730, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Timing-aware and simultaneous optimization of latch clustering and placement in an integrated circuit" was invented by Jinwook Jung (Somers, N.Y.), Gi-Joon Nam (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Jennifer Kazda (Englewood, N.J.), Gustavo Enrique Tellez (Hyde Park, N.Y.), Chau-Chin Huang (Tainan, Taiwan) and Yao-Wen Chang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are provided for providing enhanced fabrication and design of an integrated circuit in a computing system by a processor. One or more latches may be clustered by augmenting an integer...