ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,629, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Graph representation of a circuit simulation waveform" was invented by Geetesh More (Fredericton, Canada) and Zeng Cheng (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for analyzes a circuit design by obtaining a circuit simulation waveform of a circuit design. The circuit simulation waveform has signals associated with one or more of a read transaction and a write transaction of the circuit design. Further a first graph representation is created from a first signal of the signals of the circuit simulation waveform. The first graph representation in...