IBM Patent Grants

Extracting sequences from d-dimensional input data for sequential processing with neural networks

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12165028
A method and computer program product for obtaining values are run using a neural network according to a machine learning algorithm. One embodiment may comprise accessing one or more datafiles of input data, where the input data is representable in a d-dimensional space, with d>1. The method may explore N distinct paths of the input data in the d-dimensional space, where N?1, and collects data along the N distinct paths explored to respectively form N sequences of M objects each, with…

Replacement bottom electrode structure for MRAM devices

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12167700
Memory structures including an MTJ-containing pillar that is void of re-sputtered bottom electrode metal particles is provided by first forming the MTJ-containing pillar on a sacrificial material-containing structure, and thereafter replacing the sacrificial material-containing structure with at least a replacement bottom electrode structure. In some embodiments, the sacrificial material-containing structure is replaced with both a bottom electrode diffusion barrier liner and a…

Back-side memory element with local memory select transistor

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12167612
A memory device includes a semiconductor device on a wafer. The semiconductor device includes a gate structure, a first source/drain region, and a second source/drain region. The gate structure is on the first side of the wafer. The first source/drain region is also on the first side of the wafer, and contacts a first end of the gate structure. The second source/drain region is on the second side of the wafer and extends into the first side to contact a second end of the gate structure.…

Graphene/nanostructure FET with self-aligned contact and gate

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12166106
A field effect transistor (FET) includes a substrate; a channel material located on the substrate, the channel material comprising one of graphene or a nanostructure; a gate located on a first portion of the channel material; and a contact aligned to the gate, the contact comprising one of a metal silicide, a metal carbide, and a metal, the contact being located over a source region and a drain region of the FET, the source region and the drain region comprising a second portion of the…

Stacked nanosheet gate-all-around device structures

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12166042
A semiconductor device including a substrate; a continuous buried oxide layer (BOX) formed on the substrate; and a plurality of nanosheet gate-all-round (GAA) device structures on the BOX, wherein a first plurality of stacked gates of the nanosheet GAA device structures are disposed in a logic portion of the substrate and have a first nanosheet width, wherein a second plurality of stacked gates of the nanosheet GAA device structures are disposed in a high density region of the substrate…

Scene recognition based natural language translation

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12165423
From an input image comprising a portion of text, the portion of text is extracted. The portion of text comprises text in a first natural language. The input image is classified into a candidate scene within a set of predefined scenes. The candidate scene is scored according to a quality measure. Using a predefined scene parameter of the scored candidate scene, the portion of text is translated. In the input image, the portion of text is replaced. with the translated portion of text.

Workflow transformation framework

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12165092
In an approach for transforming workflows based on goals and constraints, a processor receives a workflow definition and one or more events for a workflow output by a workflow orchestrator, wherein the one or more events are at least one of a parsing event and a scheduling event. A processor determines, using one or more transformers, one or more transformations to the workflow based on a set of goals and constraints, wherein the one or more transformations is at least one of addition of…

Multi-dimensional time series event prediction via convolutional neural network(s)

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12165058
Techniques that facilitate machine learning using multi-dimensional time series data are provided. In one example, a system includes a snapshot component and a machine learning component. The snapshot component generates a first sequence of multi-dimensional time series data and a second sequence of multi-dimensional time series data from multi-dimensional time series data associated with at least two different data types generated by a data system over a consecutive period of time. The…

Networks for distributing parameters and data to neural network compute cores

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12165050
Networks for distributing parameters and data to neural network compute cores. In various embodiments, a neural inference chip comprises a plurality of neural cores and at least one network interconnecting the plurality of neural cores. Each of the plurality of neural cores is adapted to apply a plurality of synaptic weights to a plurality of input activations to produce a plurality of output activations. The at least one network is adapted to simultaneously deliver synaptic weights…

Enabling hierarchical data loading in a resistive processing unit (RPU) array for reduced communication cost

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12165046
An electronic circuit includes word lines; bit lines intersecting the word lines at a plurality of grid points; and resistive processing units located at the grid points. Baseline stochastic pulse input units are coupled to the word lines; differential stochastic pulse input units are coupled to the word lines; and bitline stochastic pulse input units are coupled to the bit lines. Control circuitry coupled to the pulse input units is configured to cause each of the baseline stochastic…

Measuring local CD uniformity using scatterometry and machine learning

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12165023
A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for measuring a local critical dimension uniformity of an array of two-dimensional structural elements, the method may include obtaining an acquired optical spectrometry spectrum of the array; feeding the acquired optical spectrometry spectrum of the array to a trained machine learning process, wherein the trained machine learning process is trained to map an optical spectrometry spectrum to an average critical dimension…

Enhanced navigation in a web browser while avoiding redirects

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12164588
A plurality of web pages in a web browser are presented to a user. One or more web pages of the plurality of web pages are navigated in the web browser by following at least one hyperlink. A browser history of the user is stored as a chronological list or recently presented web pages. A determination is made whether a dwell time of the user on a first web page has exceeded a threshold time. In response to determining that the dwell time exceeded the threshold, an of-user-interest tag is…

Dynamic computer-based internet protocol classification

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12164575
In an approach to improve internet protocol (IP) classification, embodiments of the present invention classify, by an IP classifier, a set of samples from a given IP range. Further, embodiments utilize the IP classifier to predict whether an IP address is dynamic or static and apply, by a client computer, an error-correction tree to the set of samples. Additionally, embodiments split, by the client computer, the range into two or more sub-ranges of a smaller size in response to…

Process optimization with joint-level inflow model

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12164270
One or more systems, computer-implemented methods and/or computer program products to facilitate a process to monitor and/or facilitate a modification to a manufacturing process. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise an initialization component that identifies values of inflow data of one or more inflows of a set of…

Assistance from autonomous vehicle during emergencies

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12157498
An approach for assisting users with disabilities in an emergency situation relating to a vehicle is disclosed. The approach determines the profile of the passenger in a vehicle by noting preferences and disabilities associated with the passenger. After a vehicle accident, the approach determines the condition of the vehicle and the condition of the passenger. Based on various information received, the approach creates an action list of solutions for the passenger, wherein the action…

Key import with hybrid cryptography

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160511
Hybrid encryption of imported key material is provided. A request to import key material is received from a user system. In response to the request, two public keys are sent to the user system. The two public keys include a classical cryptography (CC) public key and a quantum-safe cryptography (QSC) public key. At least one public key of the two public keys is retrieved from a hardware security module (HSM). Hybrid-encrypted key material is received from the user system. The…

Privacy-preserving federated learning

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160504
A plurality of public encryption keys are distributed to a plurality of participants in a federated learning system, and a first plurality of responses is received from the plurality of participants, where each respective response of the first plurality of responses was generated based on training data local to a respective participant of the plurality of participants and is encrypted using a respective public encryption key of the plurality of public encryption keys. A first aggregation…

Quantum computing machine learning for security threats

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12160444
Embodiments are disclosed for a method for a security model. The method includes generating a machine learning model that determines probabilities of a plurality of specific techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) for a security domain. The method also includes generating a machine learning model that maps multiple TTPs to a polytope for the security domain. Additionally, the method includes generating a polytope visualization having multiple visualized points in a multi-dimensional…

Automated machine learning model selection

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12159238
An approach to identifying architectures of machine learning models meeting a user defined constraint. The approach can receive input associated with evaluating machine learning models from a user. The approach can determine acceptable architectural templates to evaluate the machine learning models based on the input and determine a list of architectures and metrics based on a calculation of maximum neural network sizes of the acceptable architectural templates not exceeding the…

Reduced pressure drop cold plate transition

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12158314
A cold plate apparatus that has an outlet plenum leading to an outlet opening includes an outlet transition that connects the outlet opening to the outlet plenum. The outlet transition defines a smoothly curving flow path from a direction along a long dimension of the outlet plenum, which is parallel to a plane defined by the outlet opening, to a direction along a centerline of the outlet opening, which is at an angle from the plane defined by the outlet opening. The outlet transition…