ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,509, issued on July 15, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Semiconductor process simulation on graphics processing unit (GPU) with multi-level data structure" was invented by Zhiqiang Tan (San Jose, Calif.), Ibrahim Avci (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Luis Villablanca (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a multi-level data structure is defined including fine grid (FG) and coarse levels. The FG level is configured to store FG data of FG points. The coarse level is configured to store, for a respective chunk of FG points, compressed FG data and/or a pointer to corresponding FG data of the res...