IBM Patent Grants

Using collected user data and cognitive information to generate a scene set in a training environment

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12136356
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes collecting user data associated with a first user's thoughts and/or experience with a first activity, and receiving, from a neural device paired with the first user, cognitive information about the first activity. The method further includes generating, based on the collected user data and the cognitive information, a scene set in a training environment based on the first activity. The generated scene is output to a…

Reducing qubit frequency collisions through lattice design

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12137619
Lattice arrangements for quantum qubits are described. A lattice arrangement can comprise adjacent structures having vertices connected by edges. The qubits can be positioned on the vertices. A qubit in the lattice arrangement directly connects to not more than three other qubits, or connects to another qubit via a coupling qubit on an edge between two qubits on a vertex. The adjacent structures can comprise hexagons, dodecagons or octagons. A superconducting qubit lattice can comprise…

Message delivery in cellular roaming scenarios

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12137341
Message delivery in cellular roaming scenarios involves a user device activated with a home telecommunications service provider (TSP) that provides cellular service to the user device. The user device is located in a remote location and the user device is activated with a remote TSP providing roaming cellular service to the user device in a remote location on a cellular network of the remote TSP. A process includes, based on the user initiating a transaction with a remote application…

Zero trust management for data collection devices

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12137084
Computer-implemented methods for management of data collection devices. Aspects include creating a cluster of data collection devices and a distributed meta-key manager for the cluster and providing an authentication key for each data collection device to access the distributed meta-key manager. Aspects also include collecting and storing data by one or more of the data collection devices and periodically perform a quorum check for each data collection device of the cluster. Aspects…

Device integration using carrier wafer

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12136682
Compound semiconductor and silicon-based structures are epitaxially formed on semiconductor substrates and transferred to a carrier substrate. The transferred structures can be used to form discrete photovoltaic and light-emitting devices on the carrier substrate. Silicon-containing layers grown on doped donor semiconductor substrates and compound semiconductor layers grown on off-cut semiconductor substrates form elements of the devices. The carrier substrates may be electrically…

Gate-all-around field-effect transistor having source side lateral end portion smaller than a thickness of channel portion and drain side lateral end portion

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12136671
Channel engineering is employed to obtain a gate-all-around field-effect transistor having an asymmetric threshold voltage. A dual channel profile enables a steep potential distribution near the source side that enhances the lateral channel electric field and thus increases the carrier mobility.

Semiconductor structure having two-dimensional channel

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12136656
Semiconductor structures are disclosed which comprise semiconductor devices having thin multi-layer channel stacks. In one example, a semiconductor structure comprises a gate structure comprising a multi-layer channel stack. The multi-layer channel stack comprises a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, and a channel layer disposed between the first and second dielectric layers. The semiconductor structure further comprises a first source/drain region disposed on a first…

Backside electrical contacts to buried power rails

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12136655
A semiconductor device includes a dielectric isolation layer, a plurality of gates formed above the dielectric isolation layer, a plurality of source/drain regions above the dielectric isolation layer between the plurality of gates, and at least one contact placeholder for a backside contact. The at least one contact placeholder contacts a bottom surface of a first source/drain region of the plurality of source/drain regions. The semiconductor device further includes at least one…

Tetragonal half metallic half-Heusler compounds

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12136447
A magnetoresistive random-access memory cell includes a templating layer. The templating layer includes a binary alloy having an alternating layer lattice structure. The cell further includes a half metallic half-Heusler layer including a half metallic half-Heusler material having a tetragonal lattice structure. The half metallic half-Heusler layer is located outward of the templating layer, and has a half-Heusler in-plane lattice constant that is different from an in-plane lattice…

Training of model for processing sequence data

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12136411
A technique for training a model is disclosed. A training sample including an input sequence of observations and a target sequence of symbols having length different from the input sequence of observations is obtained. The input sequence of observations is fed into the model to obtain a sequence of predictions. The sequence of predictions is shifted by an amount with respect to the input sequence of observations. The model is updated based on a loss using a shifted sequence of…

Extending encryption to PCIe links

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12135831
An approach for extending encryption to input/output (I/O) on Peripheral Component Interconnect express (PCIe) links. The approach receives a proposal list of available encryption mechanisms. The approach selects an encryption mechanism from the proposal list, the encryption mechanism performs the encryption without encryption services from an associated Host Bus Adapter (HBA). The approach directs the I/O to the encryption mechanism.

Dental implant reconstruction and restoration based on digital twin

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12136215
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for simulating dental implants is provided. The present invention may include generating one or more digital twins for a potential dental implant based on a user profile. The present invention may include simulating a performance of each of the one or more digital twins in one or more user modeled environments. The present invention may include ranking the one or more digital twins based on the performance of the potential dental…

Real-time monitoring of objects in blockchain networks

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12136084
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a data store peer, measured values of objects, storing, by the data store peer, the measured values along with corresponding hash/time pair values on a data store of the data store peer, executing, by the data store peer, a smart contract to update the hash/time pair values on a blockchain ledger, executing, by the data store peer, a smart contract to retrieve hash values corresponding to a particular time from the blockchain…

Quantum state preparation of a probability Distribution facilitating quantum amplitude estimation

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12136021
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate quantum state preparation of a probability distribution to perform amplitude estimation are provided. According to an embodiment, 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 a data loader component that prepares a quantum state of a probability…

System and method for latency-aware mapping of quantum circuits to quantum chips

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12136019
A quantum circuit generator for a quantum computer includes a controller; and a plurality of analog conversion units (ACUs) operatively connected to the controller, each ACU being operatively connected to a corresponding qubit of a plurality of qubits, wherein each ACU is configured to convert a digital input from the controller into an analog input at a microwave frequency to control a quantum state of the corresponding qubit. The controller is configured to generate a quantum circuit…

Enhanced security of a barcode

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12136018
A method for authorizing access to an associated resource based on processing a series of barcode orientation scans. The method receives, by a barcode reader, a series of barcode orientation scans. The method further determines if the series of barcode orientation scans match a pre-selected combination of barcode orientations stored on the barcode reader and authorizes access to an associated resource, in response to the series of barcode orientation scans matching the pre-selected…

Parallel file system scans with multiple shared queues

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12135986
A method includes scanning, by a device of a plurality of devices, a directory of a file system. The directory includes a plurality of subdirectories, and each device of the plurality of devices corresponds to a different queue of a plurality of queues. The method also includes inserting, by the device, a plurality of scanning tasks into a subset of the plurality of queues in a round robin fashion. The plurality of scanning tasks correspond to the plurality of subdirectories and…

Automated document adaptation based on topic classification

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12135950
Using a logistic regression classification model executing on a processor, a topic is classified into an interaction type in a set of predefined interaction types. A set of documents corresponding to the topic is extracted from a document repository. Using a generative adversarial model executing on a processor, a sentiment corresponding to a reaction to a previous presentation is scored, the scoring resulting in a scored sentiment. Using a trained attention layer model, the interaction…

Expert-in-the-loop AI for materials discovery

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12135927
A set of material candidates expected to yield materials with target properties can be generated. A subject matter expert's decision indicating accepted and rejected material candidates from the set of material candidates can be received. Based on the subject matter expert's input, a machine learning model can be trained to replicate the subject matter expert's decision.

Side-effect resistant operation testing

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12135896
Operation testing without side effects may be enabled by a method including preparing a copy of a directory set of at least a part of a host system disk, creating a link to a file in a first directory in the host system disk, in a second directory of the copy of the directory set, wherein the second directory corresponds in position to the first directory in the directory set, and starting a non-privileged system using a disk image including the copy of the directory set and the created…