US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 3 for "Reinforcement learning based correction of timing failures" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,637, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Reinforcement learning based correction of timing failures" was invented by Gregor Boronowsky (Boblingen, Germany), Marvin von der Ehe (Vellmar, Germany), Manuel Beck (Dettingen unter Teck, Germany), Jan Niklas Stegmaier (Sindelfingen, Germany) and Simon Hermann Friedmann (Boblingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method of correcting a timing failure of a network of conductors and repowering structures in an integrated circuit design using a reinforcement learning agent. The reinforcement le...