ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,168, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Software defined device variants" was invented by Dinesh D. Gaitonde (Fremont, Calif.), Matthew H. Klein (Redwood City, Calif.), Himanshu Verma (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chirag Ravishankar (Erie, Colo.) and Maithilee Rajendra Kulkarni (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe assigning integrated circuits with defects as variants of the integrated circuit design. Each variant can deactivate different circuitry in the integrated circuit design. A location of the defect can be matched to a variant that has a deactivated region tha...