ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,295, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Machine-learning-based power/ground (P/G) via removal" was invented by Ping-Wei Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsiang-Wen Chang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yao-Wen Chang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for power and ground (P/G) routing for an integrated circuit (IC) design are provided. The method includes generating input features for a machine-learning (ML) model based on IR drop and routing congestion analysis for a P/G network for the IC design, and modifying a set of P/G vias or a set of P...