December 2024 monthly summary for ansys/pyedb: Delivered a bounding-box based via reduction feature that decreases the number of vias inside a user-defined bounding box by sampling grid points and removing vias outside the sampled grid. The implementation includes edge-case handling for scenarios with no vias and insufficient vias for sampling, and reports successful reduction. This enhancement improves data scalability, reduces storage and processing overhead for routing analyses, and speeds up subsequent DRC and connectivity checks by focusing analysis on a representative subset of vias within the area of interest. The work aligns with ongoing efforts to optimize spatial queries and data footprint in the via database.