ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,158, issued on June 24, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Circuit synthesis optimization for implements on integrated circuit" was invented by Chao-Chun Lo (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Boh-Yi Huang (San Jose, Calif.), Chih-yuan Stephen Yu (San Jose, Calif.), Yi-Lin Chuang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chih-Sheng Hou (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer programs products are described for optimizing circuit synthesis for implementation on an integrated circuit. A register transfer level code description of logic behavior of a circuit. The register transfer level code...