ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,429, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Power planning method, chip device, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Cheng-Chen Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power planning method, a chip device, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for the power planning method are provided. The power planning method is able to be implemented by a circuit that includes a first circuit layer and a second circuit layer. The first circuit layer includes power rails and a first standard circuit unit, and the second circuit layer includes the power rails....