Docking orientation device
Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number:
12282343
Autonomously aligning docking bodies is provided. A first-axis surface is identified as a target axis surface corresponding to a desired docking approach vector of a first body to a second body. The first body is maneuvered to align relative to a second-axis surface until a third-axis surface is less than a defined surface detection threshold level. The first body is continued to be maneuvered to align relative to the third-axis surface until the second-axis surface is less than the…
Intelligent vehicle horn
Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number:
12280715
A computer-implemented method to send targeted messages based on a driver's intent. The method includes identifying, by a sending vehicle, one or more additional vehicles in the vicinity of the sending vehicle, including a first vehicle. Monitoring a set of data related to a current scenario for the sending vehicle and determining, based on a current scenario, an intent score for the sending vehicle. The method includes activating a horn device associated with the sending vehicle. The…
Zero expansion in a replacement metal gate process with a spacer
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12279454
Zero expanded functional gate structures are formed by utilizing a dipole material spacer as a means to prevent expanded void formation during a replacement metal gate process. Notably, the dipole material spacer prevents expanded void formation into the dielectric spacer thus preventing the functional gate structures from being in direct physical contact with the source/drain regions. Improvement in yield loss and reliability is thus provided utilizing a dipole material spacer during a…
Cooperative operation of vehicles
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277859
A processor may receive a route request from a user. The processor may receive data associated with predicted routes of one or more nearby vehicles. The processor may select a recipient vehicle from the one or more nearby vehicles, where the recipient vehicle is selected based on recipient selection criteria. The processor may determine one or more driving change requests for the recipient vehicle. The processor may send the one or more driving change requests and a proposed token to the…
Dynamic virtual reality shopping shelf interface
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277595
A computer implemented method for providing virtual reality shopping provides generating, by a virtual reality (VR) engine, a VR user interface (UI) and a VR session within a VR device. A list of discounted items being discounted based on proximity to an expiration or best by use date is received from the computing device of an institution item source. A VR image of virtual items on virtual shelves in the VR UI is displayed. The virtual items are dynamically displayed in different…
Factchecking artificial intelligence models using blockchain
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277507
Methods, systems, and computer program products for factchecking artificial intelligence models using blockchain are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining at least one artificial intelligence model and at least one set of data related to the at least one artificial intelligence model; determining a set of characteristics based at least in part on the at least one artificial intelligence model and the at least one set of data; selecting one of a plurality of…
Cognitive claims processing
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277482
In some embodiments, a processor may receive a claim, where the claim relates to an event. The processor may identify characteristics of the claim. The processor may determine, using an AI model, an alert reason based on a similarity of the characteristics of the claim to characteristics of one or more other claims. The processor may generate an alert notification, and the processor may output the alert notification to a user.
Quantum circuit optimization routine evaluation and knowledge base generation
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277477
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate evaluation of quantum circuit optimization routines and knowledge base generation are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components can comprise a compilation component that concurrently executes different quantum circuit optimization sequences on multiple copies of a quantum circuit.…
Debugging by predict accessing information
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277443
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for improving debugging speed by rearranging debugging priority functions. In one embodiment, runtime input may be received about a program to be debugged. Feedback information is obtained about at least one similar program previously debugged. The compiling time information and runtime information are analyzed to determine a status of functions including one or more focused functions that will be used frequently and one or more…
Text mining based on document structure information extraction
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277389
Frequent sequences extracted from a set of documents according to a common rule are obtained. Based on comparing occurrence frequencies of various sequences, confidence of the first frequent sequence being a label expression representing a document part in a target document is evaluated. Keywords are extracted from the target document based on evaluation of the confidence.
Power staple avoidance for routing via reduction
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277375
Embodiments are provided for providing power staple avoidance during routing in a computing system by a processor. One or more transistor gates may be shifted in each row of an integrated circuit to avoid alignment of cell pins and power staples for executing a routing operation, where the circuit row is partitioned into segments based on one or more fixed objects.
Video retrieval techniques using video contrastive learning
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277171
A method, computer system, and a computer program product are provided for training a neural network for finding queried videos. Two pairs of video clips and associated text are obtained from a first dataset and a second dataset. The first dataset is used to train two video encoders by providing the video clips to the encoders as input and providing the outputs to a cosine similarity calculator. The second dataset is used to train a multi-mentor paradigm with two mentors. A first mentor…
Stop word detection for QA corpus
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277153
Dependency trees are generated for questions and answers of a question answering (QA) corpus in which the answers are associated with the questions. Generating the dependency trees includes identifying root nodes. A word near an identified root node of one of the questions is compared to words of answers associated with the one of the questions. The word is determined to be in less than a threshold number of the associated answers. The word is identified as a stop word.
Using ciphertext to deduplicate data using wide-block encryption
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277097
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: compressing an uncompressed instance of data to create a compressed instance of data. In response to determining that a size of the compressed instance of data is outside a predetermined range, the uncompressed instance of the data is encrypted utilizing wide-block encryption to create a ciphertext string. Moreover, a predetermined subset of the encrypted uncompressed instance of data in the ciphertext string is used…
Dynamic management of larger pages during runtime
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277066
A method, including: monitoring resource utilization of an operating system (OS) with applications utilizing larger pages; determining the monitored resource utilization is greater than a threshold resource utilization; in response to the determining the monitored resource utilization is greater than a threshold resource utilization, determining a respective larger pages index value for each of the applications utilizing larger pages; and turning off larger pages utilization of a subset…
Fault localization in a distributed computing system
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277049
Localizing a faulty microservice in a microservice architecture is achieved by developing healthy execution sequence data for comparison to execution sequences during system failures. Oftentimes the faulty microservice does not emit a failure signal. Frequent sub-sequences arising from log template time series data during healthy execution facilitates localization of faulty services when there is no failure signal from the faulty service.
Memory device insertion policy based on namespace range
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277042
Embodiments relate to determining legal positions as candidate positions for inserting a memory device in memory devices and determining a namespace range migration cost for the candidate positions based on a balanced state for a namespace range distributed across the memory devices. An insertion position to insert the memory device in the memory devices is selectable from the candidate positions. A given candidate position is selected with a minimum namespace range migration cost…
Dynamic alert suppression policy management
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277025
Techniques are provided for dynamic alert suppression policy management. In one embodiment, the techniques involve receiving an event stream, wherein the event stream includes metric values comprising at least one of: log anomaly data and metric anomaly data, determining an anomalous event based on the event stream, determining a persistent region of the anomalous event, determining a quantum representation of the persistent region, determining X-Y values of the persistent region based…
Autonomous driving evaluation using data analysis
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12275434
A computer implemented method for evaluating autonomous vehicle safety that includes defining criteria for safety of autonomous vehicles in a test space, and dividing the test space into an intended test space and a un-intended test space for the criteria for safety of autonomous vehicles. The intended test space includes characterizations for the autonomous vehicle that can be quantified, and the un-intended test space includes characterizations that are not quantifiable. The method…
Filter device having multiple changeable filter surfaces
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12274966
A device that comprises an outer component, an inner component and a filter module. The outer component includes a first hollow cylinder, and exterior ports in sidewalls of the first hollow cylinder. The inner component is positioned coaxially within the first hollow cylinder, and includes a second cylinder, and interior ports in the second cylinder, wherein the interior fluid ports are aligned parallel to the exterior ports. The filter module includes a hollow prism positioned coaxially…
