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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2003
Applicants:
Thomas R Bednar, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Scott W Gould, South Burlington, VT (US);
David E Lackey, Jericho, VT (US);
Douglas W Stout, Milton, VT (US);
Paul S Zuchowski, Jericho, VT (US);
Inventors:
Thomas R Bednar, Essex Junction, VT (US);
Scott W Gould, South Burlington, VT (US);
David E Lackey, Jericho, VT (US);
Douglas W Stout, Milton, VT (US);
Paul S Zuchowski, Jericho, VT (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a parent terrain; and a hierarchical order of nested voltage islands within the parent terrain, each higher-order voltage island nested within a lower-order voltage island, each nested voltage island having the same hierarchical structure.