ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,334, issued on July 22, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Runtime and memory efficient attribute query handling for distributed engine" was invented by Yogesh Dilip Save (Mumbai, India), Kirti Kedia (Mumbai, India), Ajit Sequeira (Bengaluru, India) and Abhishek Nandi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable medium are provided. The method includes performing, by one or more computing devices, a lookahead scan of a file of a circuit design to extract information associated with a query in an iterative loop, performing an action to retrieve attrib...