US Patent Issued to Synopsys on May 20 for "Structural analysis for determining fault types in safety related logic" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,178, issued on May 20, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Structural analysis for determining fault types in safety related logic" was invented by Shivakumar Shankar Chonnad (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining fault types in a circuit design includes obtaining circuit elements, a first observation point of a first circuit element, and a first diagnostic point of a first safety circuit device. The method further includes determining a first cone of influence including a first subset of the circuit elements based on the first observation point. The first subset of the circuit eleme...