ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,268, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Automated geometry optimization for analog, mixed-signal circuit design" was invented by Ashish Khandelwal (Irving, Texas), Nikhil Gupta (Plano, Texas), Sreenivasan K. Koduri (Dallas) and Timothy W. Fischer (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for designing circuits including receiving a data object representing a circuit for a first process technology, the circuit including a first sub-circuit, the first sub-circuit including a first electrical component and a second electrical component arranged in a first topology; identifying the firs...