US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, TSMC NANJING on May 27 for "Integrated circuit design method, system and computer program product" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,644, issued on May 27, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and TSMC NANJING COMPANY Ltd. (Nanjing, China).

"Integrated circuit design method, system and computer program product" was invented by Ankita Patidar (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Sandeep Kumar Goel (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yun-Han Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes creating a plurality of groups of paths from a plurality of paths in an integrated circuit (IC) layout diagram. Each group has a unique dominant feature among a plurality of features of the plurality of paths. The method further includes testing a...