US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Aug. 12 for "Apparatus and method of optimizing an integrated circuit design" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,022, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Apparatus and method of optimizing an integrated circuit design" was invented by Tsung-Che Lu (Tainan, Taiwan), Chin-Ming Fu (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Chih-Hsien Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for optimizing circuit design are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes receiving a circuit design of an integrated circuit and identifying a first circuit design of a first subsystem of the IC and a second circuit design of a second subsystem of the IC. The first subsystem operates on a plura...