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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2006

Filed:

Sep. 09, 2003
Applicants:

Alice L. Donaldson, Milton, NY (US);

Jason L. Frankel, Beacon, NY (US);

John A. Ludwig, Woodstock, NY (US);

Kenneth A. Papae, Lagrangeville, NY (US);

Rafael Perez-acevedo, Fishkill, NY (US);

C. Timothy Ryan, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Paul R. Walling, White Plains, NY (US);

Inventors:

Alice L. Donaldson, Milton, NY (US);

Jason L. Frankel, Beacon, NY (US);

John A. Ludwig, Woodstock, NY (US);

Kenneth A. Papae, Lagrangeville, NY (US);

Rafael Perez-Acevedo, Fishkill, NY (US);

C. Timothy Ryan, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Paul R. Walling, White Plains, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); H05K 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method, system and program product implementing storage of a (power or ground) mesh plane file using a multiple line shape, possibly with the storage of lines also, to reduce file size. In addition, the invention implements an activate-substantial-portion-and-remove technique to generate mesh planes rather than the conventional additive approach, which improves the speed of designing the IC carriers. A resulting mesh plane design file may be as much as half the size of a file generated using the conventional line-by-line and storage approaches.


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