ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,165, issued on March 25, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Electronic circuits including hybrid voltage threshold logical entities" was invented by Rahul M. Rao (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fabrication of an electronic circuit is facilitated by providing a computer tool to enhance design of the electronic circuit to meet a design criteria. The computer tool facilitates obtaining one or more hybrid logical entities, where a hybrid logical entity includes a pull-up circuit and a pull-down circuit formed of transistors with different transistor types for pull-up versus pull-down,...