ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,700, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Integrated circuit including standard cell and method of designing the same" was invented by Byounggon Kang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes plural standard cells performing a same function. The standard cells include a first standard cell and a second standard cell, and the first standard cell and the second standard cell are to the same as each other in terms of an arrangement of internal conductive patterns and are different from each other in terms of a position of a via formed over a gate ...