ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,134, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Deterministic netlist transformations in a multi-processor parallel computing system" was invented by Mikhail Bershteyn (Forest Hills, N.Y.), Olivier Rene Coudert (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Florent Sebastien Marc Emmanuel Claude Duru (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system obtains deterministic results of netlist transformation in a multi-processor parallel computing system. The system receives a netlist. The system determines a set of components representing components with assigned identifiers. The system determines identifiers for remaining c...