Patents by Inventor Johannes Franz Xaver Grad

Johannes Franz Xaver Grad has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and system for implementing an improved interface for designing electronic layouts
    Patent number: 9053289
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for visualizing legal locations of edges and dimensions for an object being placed or edited in the layout. During the design process, visual indicators may be provided to the user to indicate the legal locations at which edges of an object may be placed in the layout. Gravitation and/or snapping may be provided automatically identify and/or move the edges to the legal locations. However, the user can control whether and under what circumstances the gravitation and/or snapping will occur. In this way, the designer does not need to manually place the edges of every single object, which is especially helpful for objects that are intended to have an edge at a legal location. Upon a design choice by the designer, the objects can be edited so that an edge does not need to immediately comply with a design rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Gilles S. C. Lamant, Henry Yu, Simon Simonian, Johannes Franz Xaver Grad, Jeff Taraldson