High aspect ratio buried power rail metallization
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12148699
A semiconductor component includes an area of dielectric material extending below an uppermost surface of a substrate. The semiconductor component further includes a trench formed so as to extend from above the uppermost surface of the substrate into the area of dielectric material. The semiconductor component further includes a non-metal liner coating interior surfaces of the trench. The semiconductor component further includes a metal liner coating interior surfaces of the non-metal…
Memory cell in wafer backside
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12148682
A memory cell in a backside of a wafer and methods of forming the memory cell are described. A buried metal structure can be formed through a frontside of a substrate. At least one device can be formed on the frontside of a substrate, where the at least one device can be connected to the buried metal structure in the substrate. A through silicon via (TSV) can be formed through a backside of the substrate, where the TSV can be connected to the buried metal structure. A memory cell can be…
Tiered-profile contact for semiconductor
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12148663
Tiered-profile contacts for semiconductor devices and techniques for formation thereof are provided In one aspect, a method for forming tiered-profile contacts to a semiconductor device includes: depositing a first oxide layer over the semiconductor device; depositing a second oxide layer on the first oxide layer; patterning contact trenches through the first/second oxide layer down to the semiconductor device; isotropically etching a top portion of the contact trenches selective to a…
Structure and method to pattern pitch lines
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12148617
A method of semiconductor manufacture comprising forming a plurality of first mandrels as the top layer of the multi-layered hard mask and forming a first spacer around each of the plurality of first mandrels. Removing the plurality of first mandrels and cutting the first spacer to form a plurality of second mandrels. Forming a second spacer around each of the plurality of second mandrels and forming a first self-aligned pattern that includes a plurality of third mandrels. Removing the…
Magnetic tape reuse across products
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12148457
A method, in accordance with one aspect of the present invention, includes writing, by a tape drive, data tracks to a data band of a magnetic tape having servo bands flanking the data band, the writing being performed using a magnetic head that is not designed for a format of the magnetic tape. An effective pitch of servo readers of the magnetic head used simultaneously during the writing matches a servo reader pitch specification of the format of the magnetic tape. An average effective…
Speaker-specific voice amplification
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12148443
A method, system and computer program product for amplifying a single voice during an audio conversation. One embodiment of the method may comprise receiving, by a computing device, an audio sample of speech from a user, and generating, by the computing device, a user-specific acoustic model for enhancement of speech by the user based upon the audio sample. The method may further comprise receiving a live audiovisual stream, the live audiovisual stream including live speech by the user…
Reducing exposure bias in machine learning training of sequence-to-sequence transducers
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12148419
Mechanisms are provided for performing machine learning training of a computer model. A perturbation generator generates a modified training data comprising perturbations injected into original training data, where the perturbations cause a data corruption of the original training data. The modified training data is input into a prediction network of the computer model and processing the modified training data through the prediction network to generate a prediction output. Machine…
Spectral autocorrelation based security system
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12148276
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method for autocorrelation based security monitoring and detection is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes determining that input signal data transmitted to a white noise generator autocorrelates with itself at one or more time lags. The computer-implemented method further includes, responsive to determining that the input signal data transmitted to the white noise generator autocorrelates with…
Standardizing global entity job descriptions
Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number:
12147947
In an approach to provide consistent job descriptions for global entities, computer-implemented methods, computer program products, and computer systems for standardizing global entity job descriptions are described. The computer-implemented method for standardizing global entity job descriptions may include one or more processors configured for receiving first job identifier data corresponding to a job posting having a plurality of job descriptions, generating second job identifier data…
Neural flow attestation
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141704
Mechanisms are provided to implement a neural flow attestation engine and perform computer model execution integrity verification based on neural flows. Input data is input to a trained computer model that includes a plurality of layers of neurons. The neural flow attestation engine records, for a set of input data instances in the input data, an output class generated by the trained computer model and a neural flow through the plurality of layers of neurons to thereby generate recorded…
Maintaining data in memory for transformation and quality checking when reading from a source and loading to a target
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141482
Data transformation and data quality checking is provided by reading data from a source datastore and storing the data into memory, performing in-memory processing of the data stored in memory, where the data is maintained in-memory for performance of the in-memory processing thereof, and where the in-memory processing includes performing one or more transformations on the data stored in memory, in which the data stored in memory is transformed and stored back into the memory and…
Channel scaling: a scale-and-select approach for selective transfer learning
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141701
A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for introducing channel-scaling layers in a deep neural network. A computer receives a pre-trained deep neural network including convolutional layers followed by respective ones of activation layers, adds channel-scaling layers after the respective ones of the activation layers, where each of the channel-scaling layers includes scaling weights. The computer trains the scaling weights in the channel-scale…
Annotating customer data
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141697
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to annotating or tagging customer data. In some embodiments, the annotating can include summarizing touchpoints into k-hot encoding feature vectors, mapping the feature vectors onto an embedding layer, predicting a hierarchical data sequence using the embedding layer and the feature vectors, extracting the feature vectors that are most influential in predicting the embedding layer, and outputting the touchpoints associated with the most…
Memory-augmented neural network system
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141692
The present disclosure relates to a method for classifying a query information element using the similarity between the query information element and a set of support information elements. A resulting set of similarity scores is transformed using a sharpening function such that the transformed scores are decreasing as negative similarity scores increase and the transformed scores are increasing as positive similarity scores increase. A class of the query information element is determined…
Enhancing applications based on effectiveness scores
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141567
Provided are techniques for enhancing applications based on effectiveness scores. Application functionalities of applications in an application landscape are identified. Application logs for the applications are analyzed to identify how the application functionalities are executing. Groups of application functionalities are formed, where each of the groups includes different application functionalities that perform a similar function. For a group of the groups, an effectiveness score is…
Message mapping and combination for intent classification
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141540
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for automated agent intent detection enhancement are provided. A first message from a first user is received. The first message is generated during a first conversation between the first user and a first automated agent. A computer produces a second message that includes a same request as the first message but a different language modality than the first message. The second message and the first message are combined to form a…
Personalizing automated conversational system based on predicted level of knowledge
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141534
Techniques for personalizing an AI automated conversational system are provided. In one aspect, a method for personalizing an automated conversational system includes: making predictions of a familiarity of a user with concepts needed to understand a standard output utterance based on the familiarity of an aggregate of users and a background knowledge model of the concepts and related concepts, wherein the standard output utterance assumes that the concepts are known; and giving, by the…
Leveraging knowledge records for chatbot local search
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141533
At least one knowledge source for use in updating a first problem-solution data set can be selected. From data provided by the at least one knowledge source, a plurality of dialogs can be automatically generated. Existing dialogs in the first problem-solution data can be updated set using the plurality of dialogs that are generated.
Determining unknown concepts from surrounding context
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141530
A computer-implemented method for learning unknown concepts during natural language processing is disclosed, including identifying a sentence associated with an unknown concept, selecting a first sequential set of sentences from a first document, including the sentence associated with the unknown concept, one sentence prior, and subsequent to the sentence associated with the unknown concept, selecting a second sequential set of sentences from a second document, including a sentence…
Method to map convolutional layers of deep neural network on a plurality of processing elements with SIMD execution units, private memories, and connected as a 2D systolic processor array
Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number:
12141513
A method for improving performance of a predefined Deep Neural Network (DNN) convolution processing on a computing device includes inputting parameters, as input data into a processor on a computer that formalizes a design space exploration of a convolution mapping, on a predefined computer architecture that will execute the predefined convolution processing. The parameters are predefined as guided by a specification for the predefined convolution processing to be implemented by the…
