ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,544, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Split N-well cells having a merged N-well design" was invented by Venugopal Pabba (Ranga Reddy, India) and Biral Rasikbhai Patel (Ahmedabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An N-well cell stored as a digital representation with a non-transitory computer readable medium. The N-well cell is used within a circuit block of an integrated circuit device. The N-well cell includes a first N-well electrically connected to a first power rail providing a first supply voltage. The first N-well further includes a second N-well electrically connected to the first powe...