ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,278, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Methods and systems for verifying integrated circuits" was invented by Taehwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyungjung Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Younsik Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for verifying an integrated circuit includes a tracing module configured to: trace a specified path based on the specified path on which a timing analysis will be performed among a plurality of signal transfer paths within the integrated circuit and a netlist of the integrated circuit at a transistor level, generate a li...