US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Sept. 16 for "Modifying a current circuit design using data from one or more previous circuit designs identified as being similar to the current circuit design" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,336, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Modifying a current circuit design using data from one or more previous circuit designs identified as being similar to the current circuit design" was invented by Mehrdad Najibi (San Ramon, Calif.), Amzie Adams (Raleigh, N.C.), Piyush Verma (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Joe Walston (Durham, N.C.), Pranay Prakash (Fremont, Calif.) and Thomas Andersen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of electronic design automation (EDA) using machine learning to modify a current circuit design is provided. The method includes searching for data associated wit...