ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,082, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Satisfying circuit design constraints using a combination of machine learning models" was invented by Satish Bachina (Hyderabad, India), Karthic P (Chennai, India), Vishal Tripathi (Kanpur, India) and Srinivasan Dasasathyan (Secunderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple classifier models are applied to features of a circuit design after processing the design through a first phase of an implementation flow. Each classifier model is associated with one of multiple directives, the directives are associated with a second phase of the implementation flow,...