ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,670, issued on April 8, was assigned to Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Testbench for sub-design verification" was invented by Rajvinder S. Klair (San Jose, Calif.), Dhiraj Kumar Prasad (Hyderabad, India), Saikat Bandyopadhyay (San Jose, Calif.), Ashish Kumar Jain (Hyderabad, India), Shiyao Ge (San Jose, Calif.), Tapodyuti Mandal (Hyderabad, India) and Miti Joshi (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Testbench creation for sub-design verification can include receiving, using computer hardware, a selection of a sub-design of a circuit design. The sub-design is one of a plurality of sub-designs of the circuit design. The ci...