ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,333, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Short net pin alignment for routing" was invented by Hua Xiang (Ossining, N.Y.), Benjamin Neil Trombley (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Gi-Joon Nam (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Gustavo Enrique Tellez (Hyde Park, N.Y.) and Paul G Villarrubia (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are provided for providing enhanced routing in a computing system by a processor. One or more of a plurality of short nets in a cell of an integrated circuit may be aligned for executing a routing operation, wherein a short net is a two-pin net having two gate...