ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,629, issued on July 29, was assigned to Phytium Technology Co. Ltd. (Tianjin, China).

"Method, system, apparatus, medium, and program for physical design wiring and optimization" was invented by Xiaokun Luan (Tianjin, China), Wei Huang (Tianjin, China), Shaoxian Bian (Tianjin, China), Yu Deng (Tianjin, China), Jianfeng Jiang (Tianjin, China), Yongfeng Sun (Tianjin, China), Zhanzhi Chen (Tianjin, China), Wenjiang Jin (Tianjin, China), Cuina Wang (Tianjin, China) and Tao Tang (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit physical design wiring and optimization method includes, in a first physical design wiring pr...