US Patent Issued to Siemens Industry Software on April 15 for "Efficient scheduling of tasks for resolution enhancement technique operations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,377, issued on April 15, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Efficient scheduling of tasks for resolution enhancement technique operations" was invented by Soohong Austin Kim (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Hien T. Vu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for scheduling optical proximity correction (OPC) or other resolution enhancement technique (RET) operations on a layout design is disclosed. A layout design is divided into a plurality of regions, such as a plurality of tiles. OPC is performed on the plurality of tiles in order to generate a modified layout design. Performing OPC o...