ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,802, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Recommending changes in the design of an integrated circuit using a rules-based analysis of failures" was invented by SheshaShayee K Raghunathan (Bangalore, India), Charles Gates (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Kerim Kalafala (Rhinebeck, N.Y.), Steven Joseph Kurtz (Austin, Texas), Morgan D. Davis (Rochester, Minn.), Debra Dean (Cary, N.C.), Chris Cavitt (Queensbury, N.Y.), Chaitra M Bhat (Bangalore, India) and Richard William Taggart (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product ...