IBM Patent Grants

Historical image search

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242529
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for historical image search is provided. The present invention may include receiving an image search criteria. The present invention may also include generating a composite image search query based on the received image search criteria. The present invention may further include searching for a matching historical image based on the generated composite image search query. The present invention may also include returning a…

Phase change memory with concentric ring-shaped heater

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12245530
A ring-shaped heater, system, and method to gradually change the conductance of the phase change memory through a concentric ring-shaped heater. The system may include a phase change memory. The phase change memory may include a bottom electrode. The phase change memory may also include a ring-shaped heater patterned on top of the bottom electrode, the ring-shaped heater including: a plurality of concentric conductive heating layers, and a plurality of insulator spacers, where each…

Parser to identify, interpret, and suggest professional language

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242802
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for coordinating professional language is provided. The present invention may include running, by a processor, at least one professional parsing algorithm and at least one non-professional parsing algorithm on an ingested writing; assigning, by at least one of the professional parsing algorithms and at least one of the non-professional parsing algorithms, one or more initial scores to the ingested…

Blending graph predictions

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242801
Software that performs the following operations: (i) receiving a set of graph predictions corresponding to an input text, where graph predictions of the set of graph predictions are generated by different respective machine learning models; (ii) blending the graph predictions of the set of graph predictions to generate a plurality of candidate blended graphs, where nodes and edges of the candidate blended graphs have respective selection metric values, generated using a selection metric…

Corpus quality processing for a specified task

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242797
Processing within a computing environment is facilitated using a corpus processing system to assess and enhance quality of a corpus of unstructured documents for a specified task. The processing includes referencing, by a corpus processing engine, the corpus of unstructured documents to obtain unstructured document data, and applying, by a corpus quality metrics engine, a set of quality metrics to the document data to obtain a set of quality metric scores. Further, the process includes…

Permutation invariance for representing linearized tabular data

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242796
An embodiment for encoding permutation-invariant representations of linearized tabular data. The embodiment may receive input including tabular data and linearize a column or row within the received tabular data. The embodiment may automatically assign an increasing sequence of position identifiers to each non-delimiting tokenized cell in the linearized column or row until a header delimiter is reached. The embodiment may, in response to reaching the header delimiter, automatically…

Generating target schema based on source schema and query expression

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242795
Generating a target schema is provided. The method comprises receiving an input schema that defines an input structure and receiving a transformation map. The transformation map and the input schema are both parsed, and a first tree for the map and a second tree for the schema are traversed in a step fashion. According to the traversal of the first tree and second tree, a target schema is generated that is valid for all possible instance documents that the transformation map would…

Agent assisted model development

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242780
A method, computer program product, and computer system for using agents at a data lake to assist training, testing, and deploying a model for predicting one or more outputs from specified input to the model, using agents at the data lake. The agents identify at the data lake: hardware resources, a first portion of model input data for training and testing the model, a training language, and a first software resource. A first execution of the first software resource is triggered to split…

Determining a memory contention state of a node

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242733
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes causing a memory assessment thread to perform a first predetermined node memory contention state determination sequence for a predetermined first node. The first predetermined node memory contention state determination sequence includes recording a first timestamp, and allocating dedicated memory of the predetermined first node. The first predetermined node memory contention state determination sequence furthermore…

Regulation based protection of data for storage systems

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242633
Embodiments for providing enhanced data protection for storage systems in a computing environment by a processor. One or more queries received by a storage system may be identified. Approval or denial of transmission of data with the storage system may be regulated in relation to the one or more queries based a queried metadata and a plurality of rules and administrative policies.

Safe mobility for patients

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12239565
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods, computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: detecting, by machine logic, an event in a patient environment, wherein the event includes a body part of a patient moving to a location within a threshold distance of a point of interest, the point of interest being a location in the patient environment which if subject to contact by the body part poses risk to the patient; determining, by machine…

Storing unstructured data in a structured framework

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242498
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an unstructured data record and parsing the unstructured data record to determine a characterization of the unstructured data record. The characterization includes determination of: a number of fields, a length for the fields, and an order of the fields as stored in the unstructured data record. The method also includes obtaining a first key pair that includes a primary key-name associated with a first key-value and hashing at least the…

Semantic search based on a graph database

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242477
In order to perform a semantic search based on a graph database, sets of nodes are selected from a plurality of nodes in a graph database. A set of nodes semantically matches a keyword in a natural language query. At least one target node is identified in the sets of nodes. A path is selected from candidate paths based on similarities between the candidate paths and a plurality of paths in the graph database. A graph query for retrieving information from the graph database is generated…

Automated determination of accurate data schema

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242437
Systems and computer-implemented methods select a subset of methods to generate data schemas for input data from a list of methods for generating data schemas, based on output of a regression model; generate a candidate schema for each method in the subset of methods to generate data schemas; and generate a master data schema for the input data by merging the candidate schema for each method in the subset of methods to generate data schemas, utilizing predetermined rules.

Autonomous data sharding and topology alterations for disaster recovery preparation

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242362
A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for data sharding and topology alterations for disaster recovery preparation. A computer system estimates time needed to copy a data store of a data center that is assumed offline. A computer system determines whether the time needed is greater than a recovery time objective (RTO). A computer system creates a data shard for the data store, in response to determining that the time needed is greater than the…

Photoacid generator for chemically amplified photoresists

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242190
In an approach to improve the field of photoacid generators (PAGs) through a new photoacid generator, in particular to a photoacid generator comprising a new polycyclic aromatic photoacid generator compound anion, and a photoresist composition, comprising said photoacid generator. Embodiments the present invention relate to a method of generating an acid using said photoresist composition and a method of forming a patterned materials feature on a substrate.

Automatic weather event impact estimation

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242021
A processor may receive weather event data. The processor may determine, utilizing an artificial intelligence model mapping weather events having weather impacts with a higher likelihood of occurrence proximate to each other in the latent space, a weather impact associated with a weather event. In some embodiments, the artificial intelligence model may be trained using historical weather event data and historical weather impact data associated with the historical weather event data. The…

Micro-electromechanical device having a soft magnetic material electrolessly deposited on a palladium layer coated metal beam

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12240753
A micro-electromechanical device and method of manufacture are disclosed. A sacrificial layer is formed on a silicon substrate. A metal layer is formed on a top surface of the sacrificial layer. Soft magnetic material is electrolessly deposited on the metal layer to manufacture the micro-electromechanical device. The sacrificial layer is removed to produce a metal beam separated from the silicon substrate by a space.

3D printing with virtual reality integration

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12240181
Deviations in a 3D printing process can be detected during printing via sensors or by user observation. A user can manipulate and evaluate any deviations from a 3D model via a simulation of the work-in-progress object via virtual reality. The user can also make changes to the model, resulting in the printer completing the same work-in-progress object based on the revised model.

Continuous 3D printing

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12240174
A method of 3D printing, a 3D printing system, and a vertical conveyor are disclosed herein. The 3D printing system comprises a vertical conveyor having a plurality of folding build plates; a plurality of biasing devices, a biasing device being configured to rotate a folding build plate from a folded position to a substantially horizontal position when the folding build plate enters a printing chamber position, and a 3D print head inside the print chamber adapted to 3D print an object on…