US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on May 13 for "Hard-to-fix (HTF) design rule check (DRC) violations prediction" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,376, issued on May 13, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Hard-to-fix (HTF) design rule check (DRC) violations prediction" was invented by Ching Hsu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Shih-Yao Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yi-Lin Chuang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: training a machine learning model with a plurality of electronic circuit placement layouts; predicting, by the machine learning model, fix rates of design rule check (DRC) violations of a new electronic circuit placement layout; identifying hard-to-fix (HTF) DRC violations among the DRC violations based o...