ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,178, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Methods of generating circuit models and manufacturing integrated circuits using the same" was invented by Yohan Kim (Gwacheon-si, South Korea), Changwook Jeong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jisu Ryu (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a circuit model used to simulate an integrated circuit may include generating first feature element data and second feature element data by classifying feature data of a target semiconductor device according to measurement conditions, generating first target data and second ...