US Patent Issued to X Development on April 29 for "Differentiable model for manufacturability" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,614, issued on April 29, was assigned to X Development LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Differentiable model for manufacturability" was invented by Raj Apte (Palo Alto, Calif.), Cyrus Behroozi (Menlo Park, Calif.), Zhigang Pan (Austin, Texas) and Dino Ruic (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer-implemented methods, and instructions encoded in machine-accessible storage media are provided for determining manufacturability of an integrated circuit layout. A computer-implemented method includes receiving a layout describing the integrated circuit to be manufactured by a semiconductor manufacturing process. The...