Metal gate boundary for transistor scaling
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12176250
Embodiments of present invention provide a method of forming a transistor structure. The method includes receiving a first and a second gate region of a first and a second transistor, the second transistor being adjacent to the first transistor; forming a first work-function metal surrounding the first gate region; truncating the first work-function metal at a first boundary between the first transistor and the second transistor; forming one or more work-function metals surrounding the…
Shared content privilege modification
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12177225
Shared content privilege modification is provided. An electronic message is identified containing an address for accessing shared content, where the message is for communication to a set of recipients. Existing privileges are determined for the shared content for each recipient in the set of recipients. A requested action regarding the shared content is determined by analyzing the communication using natural language processing. Privileges for the shared content are modified for at least…
Permission assignment advisor
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12177223
A method, computer program product, and computer system are provided for recommending user role assignments. An action executed by a user from among a plurality of users on a network is identified. Data corresponding to the identified action is compiled and consolidated in a database of historical actions associated with the plurality of users. A trend or an anomaly is identified within the compiled and consolidated data based on a role and permissions associated with the user. A…
Enhanced endpoint multicast emulation
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12177031
Embodiments for providing enhanced endpoint multicast emulation in a computing environment. One or more multicast operations may be executed on an overlay network using endpoint multicast emulation by using an overlay layer or a virtual extensible LAN (“VXLAN”) layer to maintain control over one or more multicast groups.
Communication systems for power supply noise reduction
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12176960
Method and apparatus for transferring a data signal including receiving a digital data signal by a first data input of a transmitter multiplexer; inverting the digital data signal by a first inverter, thereby providing an inverted digital data signal; receiving the inverted digital data signal by a first inverted data input of the transmitter multiplexer; counting, by a first counter, a clock signal; transmitting, by the first counter and in response to the first counter counting a…
Strained semiconductor FET devices with epitaxial quality improvement
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12176434
Strained semiconductor FET devices with epitaxial quality improvement are provided. In one aspect, a semiconductor FET device includes: a substrate; at least one device stack including active layers oriented horizontally one on top of another on the substrate; gates surrounding at least a portion of each of the active layers; gate spacers alongside the gates; and source/drains, interconnected by the active layers, on opposite sides of the gates, wherein the source/drains are offset from…
Stacked nanosheet transistor with defect free channel
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12176416
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and resulting structures for nanosheet devices having defect free channels. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a nanosheet stack is formed over a substrate. The nanosheet stack includes alternating first sacrificial layers and second sacrificial layers. One layer of the first sacrificial layers has a greater thickness than the remaining first sacrificial layers. The first sacrificial layers are removed and…
Wrap-around contact for nanosheet device
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12176404
A semiconductor structure comprises a substrate defining a first axis and a second axis in orthogonal relation to the first axis, first and second nanosheet stacks disposed on the substrate, a gate structure on each of the first and second nanosheet stacks, a source/drain region adjacent each of the first and second nanosheet stacks, a wrap-around contact disposed about each source/drain region and an isolator pillar disposed between the wrap-around contacts.
Self-aligned hybrid substrate stacked gate-all-around transistors
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12176348
A semiconductor structure including vertically stacked nFETs and pFETs containing suspended semiconductor channel material nanosheets (NS) and a method of forming such a structure. The structure is a three dimensional (3D) integration by vertically stacking nFETs and pFETs for area scaling. In an embodiment, vertically-stacked NS FET structures include a first nanosheet transistor located above a second nanosheet transistor; the first nanosheet transistor including a first NS channel…
Stacked FET with independent gate control
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12176345
Stacked FET devices having independent and shared gate contacts are provided. In one aspect of the invention, a stacked FET device includes: a bottom-level FET(s) having a bottom-level FET gate; a top-level FET(s) having a top-level FET gate, wherein an upper portion of the bottom-level FET gate is adjacent to the top-level FET gate; a dielectric sidewall spacer in between the upper portion of the bottom-level FET gate and the top-level FET gate; and a dielectric gate cap disposed over…
Model change management of online software as a medical device
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12176107
Machine learning model change management in an online Software as a Medical Device (“SaMD”) is provided. One or more machine learning models implemented in a medical domain may be monitored where the one or more machine learning models are continuously updated. One or more changes to the one or more machine learning models. The one or more machine learning models, having the one or more changes, are certified as being in compliance with performance characteristics and compliance…
Charging locker including a charging station
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12175826
A charging locker including a charging station. The charging locker can receive a power connection to a user device via the charging station. The charging locker can actuate a lock for a door of the charging locker to a locked state. the charging station can provide power that charges the user device. Responsive to receiving a user event when the lock for the door of the charging locker is in the locked state, the charging locker can actuate the lock for the door of the charging locker…
Augmented reality (AR) measurement display
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12175611
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to augmented reality (AR) measurement display. A measurement of a quantity in an environment of a user currently using an AR device can be received. A preferred unit of measurement (UoM) for the measurement of the quantity can be selected based on an analysis of historical data of the user. The measurement of the quantity can be conceptualized by obtaining a virtual object associated with the measurement of the quantity. A command to display, on…
Image creation with positioning of recreated text and shapes
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12175574
A computer implemented method for manipulating an image comprising pixels. A group of processor units creates editable text having changeable text attributes from text in the image. The group of processor units forms a text layer for the image with the editable text created from the text in the image, wherein the editable text is located in text positions in the text layer corresponding to positions of the text in the image. The group of processor units creates a set of editable shapes…
Computer transaction entity authentication
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12175463
A resource request that is directed to a first online resource of a resource provider is detect by a computing device. A first user that initiated the resource request is identified based on the resource request. A set of challenge questions is determined in response to the resource request and based on the first user. A first challenge question of the set of challenge questions is present, to a first client device of the first user.
Intelligent reusable packaging amelioration for cognitive shipments
Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number:
12175409
An embodiment for ameliorating reusable packaging for cognitive commerce shipments is provided. The embodiment may include receiving information relating to a product to be shipped in a reusable package and historical sensor data obtained from a knowledge corpus. The embodiment may also include predicting a size of the reusable package in which to ship the product. The embodiment may further include identifying a required level of inflation of an array of balloons in the reusable…
Autonomous self-driving vehicles user profiles
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12168451
A computer hardware system includes a full self-driving (FSD) assistive system for assisting a user with a trip using a FSD autonomous vehicle and hardware processing configured to initiate the following executable operations. Based upon a first user input to a computing device associated with the user, a proposed route of the trip is received. A previously-stored user profile of the user and a context of the trip is retrieved. The vehicle is searched for based upon the user profile, the…
Cognitive recommendation of computing environment attributes
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12169785
An embodiment includes parsing an input dataset associated with a first node of a decision tree, where the input dataset includes a set of profile values for a set of projected usage parameters for a computing environment. The embodiment identifies a structure of the dataset using a recursive neural network that predicts a question sequence in a hierarchical tree format. The embodiment calculates a first deviation from the predicted question sequence and determines whether the deviation…
Superresolution and consistency constraints to scale up deep learning models
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12169776
Techniques of facilitating deep learning model rescaling by computing devices. In one example, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components can comprise: a rescaling component; and a forecasting component. The rescaling component can determine a scaling ratio that maps low mesh resolution predictive data output by a partial differential equation (PDE)-based model for a sub-domain to high-resolution…
Worst case noise and bound management for RPU crossbar arrays
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12169534
Techniques for noise and bound management for DNN training on RPU crossbar arrays using a scaling factor based on a worst-case scenario are provided. In one aspect, a method for noise and bound management includes: obtaining input vector values x for an analog crossbar array of RPU devices, wherein a weight matrix is mapped to the analog crossbar array of RPU devices; and scaling the input vector values x based on a worst-case scenario to provide scaled input vector values x? to use as…
