ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,813, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ZHENGXINYUAN TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Simultaneous placement and routing based method and apparatus for incremental design optimization, and computer device" was invented by Lizheng Zhang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simultaneous placement and routing based method and apparatus for incremental design optimization, and a computer device. The method includes according to a net-list file and a core constraint file acquired after logic synthesis, sequentially placing modules, each including units, on an initial coarse grid and simultaneously performing...