ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,350, issued on May 27, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Pay-per-use metering service for electronic design automation workloads in the cloud" was invented by Gurbir Singh (Hayward, Calif.), Rajendra Rao Kundapur (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jagadeeswara R. Mandla (San Jose, Calif.) and Shekhar Y. Mahajan (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A check-out request for a license may be received from an application, e.g., an electronic design automation (EDA) application, and may be routed to a license server. The license may be granted to the application, where granting the license to the application may include e...