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Samsung patents method for generating chip patterns from design rules

Patent drawing from the official filing.

Samsung has filed a patent application for a system that helps create images for making computer chips. The method converts specific design rules and potential weaknesses into mathematical vectors to generate patterns that meet those requirements.

Why it mattersThis is a routine improvement in the software used to design microchips, helping engineers ensure their designs follow strict manufacturing rules.

In the filing’s own words

A device including one or more processors including processing circuitry and a memory including one or more storage media storing instructions that, when executed individually or collectively by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to convert a patterning vulnerability into a first vector, convert a design rule into a second vector, and generate one or more pattern images to satisfy the patterning vulnerability and the design rule based on the first vector and the second vector.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An electronic device, comprising: one or more processors comprising processing circuitry; and a memory comprising one or more storage media storing instructions that, when executed individually or collectively by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to: convert a patterning vulnerability into a first vector; convert a design rule into a second vector; and generate one or more pattern images to satisfy the patterning vulnerability and the design rule based on the first vector and the second vector.

Facts

Company: Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title: METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM WITH SEMICONDUCTOR PATTERN IMAGE GENERATION
Publication number: US20260330118A1
Application number: 19468124
Filed: Feb 3, 2026
Published: Oct 22, 2026
Inventors: 5
Claims: 20

Classified under

G06F 30/392 Physics & computingG03F 7/70433 Physics & computing

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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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