ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,818, issued on July 8, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optimizing method, device and non-transient computer readable medium for integrated circuit layout" was invented by Cheng-Chen Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chun-Chuan Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optimizing method, device and non-transient computer readable medium for an integrated circuit layout are provided. The method includes: identifying power rails and corresponding power supply domains in an integrated circuit design file; performing design rule check for circuit units in the integrated circuit design file to calculat...