US Patent Issued to Synopsys on July 29 for "Virtual isolated pattern layer: isolated pattern recognition, extraction and compression" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,628, issued on July 29, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Virtual isolated pattern layer: isolated pattern recognition, extraction and compression" was invented by Jun Chen (Cary, N.C.), James Lewis Nance (Raleigh, N.C.), Karthikeyan Muthalagu (Durham, N.C.) and Nathaniel Garrett Brooks (Carrboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes identifying isolated shapes within a semiconductor design. The isolated shapes correspond to patterns of layers of components of the semiconductor design. The method also includes identifying one or more unique patterns among the isolated shapes, generating a virtual is...