ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,062, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Selection and placement of safety mechanisms" was invented by Shivakumar Shankar Chonnad (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of designing a circuit includes identifying a first path from a first selected node of a circuit design. A first attribute is assigned to the first selected node. The method also includes identifying a second path from a second selected node of the circuit design. A second attribute is assigned to the second selected node. The method further includes determining a first intersection of the first path and the second...