US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on July 22 for "Automated system and method for circuit design" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,333, issued on July 22, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Automated system and method for circuit design" was invented by Shin-Chi Chen (Shinchu, Taiwan), King-Ho Tam (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Ze Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Huang-Yu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in certain embodiments includes using a computer system that includes an EDA tool to generate a layout of an IC device; searching, using a statistical method such as Bayesian optimization process, for one or more input variable parameters, such as the dimensions of the IC device and the dimensions of ...