ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,159, issued on March 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"System for collaborative hardware RTL logic timing debug in integrated circuit designs" was invented by Arun Joseph (Kadugodi, India), Wolfgang Roesner (Austin, Texas), Shashidhar Reddy (Bangalore, India), Sampath Goud Baddam (Ramannager, India), Anthony Saporito (Highland, N.Y.) and Matthias Klein (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, programming product, and/or system is disclosed for identifying flaws in integrated circuits, e.g., processors, that includes: selecting from a list of a plurality of timing issues in...