IBM Patent Grants

Gate-all-around field effect transistor with bottom dielectric isolation

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12100746
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first pair of FET (field effect transistor) gate structures separated by a first gate canyon having a first gate canyon spacing, disposed upon the semiconductor substrate, a second pair of FET gate structures separated by a second gate canyon having a second gate canyon spacing, disposed upon the substrate, a first S/D (source/drain region disposed in the first gate canyon, a second S/D region disposed in the second gate…

Amorphous superconducting alloys for superconducting circuits

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12102016
Techniques facilitating formation of amorphous superconducting alloys for superconducting circuits are provided. A device can comprise one or more superconducting components that comprise an amorphous superconducting alloy comprising two or more elements. At least one element of the two or more elements is a superconducting element.

Staircase patterning for 3D NAND devices

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12101929
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same include forming an etch mask on a stack of alternating dielectric layers and conductor layers. An exposed portion of a dielectric layer and a conductor layer is etched away to form a wordline. The forming and etching steps are repeated, adding additional etch mask material at each iteration, to form respective wordlines at each iteration.

Key rotation on a publish-subscribe system

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12101402
The present disclosure relates to a method for a cryptographic key rotation in a publish-subscribe system providing a broker service for routing stored encrypted messages to one or more subscribers of the topic to which the routed messages are assigned. The routing comprises decrypting the stored encrypted messages. The cryptographic key rotation comprises a re-encryption of the stored messages using a cryptographic replacement key. The re-encryption is executed by an encryption module…

Quantum computing machine learning for security threats

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12101341
Embodiments are disclosed for a method for a security model. The method includes identifying a security threat attack to a security domain by generating a Bloch sphere based on a system information and event management (STEM) of the security domain and a security threat attack framework. The attack is non-linear. Identifying the attack also includes generating a quantum state probabilities matrix (QSPM) based on the Bloch sphere. Further, identifying the attack includes training a…

Dynamic graphing for managing an IT operation system

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12101232
A method, computer system, and a computer program product are provided for dynamic viewing of an operation graph depicting a distributed workload in an Information Technology system. A list may be received as input and may include selected nodes. A sub-graph may be abstracted from a global graph. The sub-graph and the global graph may depict interactions among ops objects of the distributed workload using nodes and edges. First nodes may be removed from the global graph according to the…

Device lifetime-aware creation of customizable surrogate-based models

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12101224
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for adaptive surrogate modeling is provided. The embodiment may include capturing a plurality of system information for a smart Internet of Things (IoT) device. The embodiment may also include calculating a lifespan value of the smart IoT device based on the plurality of captured system information. The embodiment may further include, in response to the calculated lifespan value being below a threshold…

Automated waveform validation

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12101098
Systems, compute-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate automated waveform validation are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components comprise a waveform comparison component that compares a digital conversion of an analog signal to a reference signal.

Shape-memory alloy lock for connectors

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12100910
A first apparatus includes an electrical connector with an outer shell and an inner wafer, where the inner wafer is configured to slide into a cavity of the outer shell. The first apparatus further includes a shape-memory alloy coupled to a void in the outer shell and configured to interfere with an area on the inner wafer. A second apparatus includes an OTS connector with an outer shell and an inner wafer, where the inner wafer is configured to slide into a cavity of the outer shell.…

Integrated short channel omega gate FinFET and long channel FinFET

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12100766
An integrated short channel omega gate FinFET and long channel FinFET semiconductor device includes a first fin and second fin on a buried oxide (BOX) layer. The BOX layer includes a fin well outside and substantially adjoining a footprint of a respective fin. A first gate dielectric layer is upon the second fin and a second gate dielectric layer is upon the first dielectric layer. The BOX layer further includes an undercut below the first fin that exposes a portion of a bottom surface…

Detection of operation tendency based on anomaly detection

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12099922
A computer-implemented method for detecting an operation tendency is disclosed. The method includes preparing a general model for generating a general anomaly score. The method also includes preparing a specific model, for generating a specific anomaly score, trained with a set of a plurality of operation data related to operation by a target operator. The method further includes receiving input operation data. The method includes also calculating a detection score related to the…

Wrap around contact process margin improvement with early contact cut

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12100744
A method is presented for forming a wrap around contact. The method includes forming a p-type epitaxial region and an n-type epitaxial region over a substrate, forming a dielectric pillar between the p-type epitaxial region and the n-type epitaxial region, depositing sacrificial liners around both the p-type epitaxial region and the n-type epitaxial region, and depositing an inter-layer dielectric (ILD). The method further includes forming trenches in the ILD extending into the…

Resistance tunable fuse structure formed by embedded thin metal layers

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12100653
Fabrication method for forming a resistance tunable fuse stack structure includes forming on a substrate layer a first fuse conductive layer, directly on, and contacting a top surface of, the substrate layer, followed by forming a first inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer, directly on, and contacting a top surface of, the first fuse conductive layer, a second fuse conductive layer, directly on, and contacting a top surface of, the first ILD layer, followed by forming a second ILD layer,…

Generating ontology based on biomarkers

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12100518
Techniques for generating an ontology based on biomarker information associated with persons to facilitate improving clinical predictions relating to medical conditions are presented. An ontology generator component (OGC) can extract clinical features associated with patients and their associated times from medical records or databases to develop clinical profiles associated with the patients and relating to a medical condition. OGC can develop an ontology relating to the medical…

Image stitching for high-resolution scans

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12100117
A computer-implemented method is disclosed for image stitching for a plurality of digital images of an infrastructure surface for defect detection. The method includes providing a plurality of partial digital images of an infrastructure surface. The method includes extracting global positioning system meta-data from data corresponding to the partial digital images. The method includes determining feature descriptions of features in the one or more partial digital images. The method…

Generating 2D mapping using 3D data

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12100101
In an aspect for generating a 2-dimensional (2D) building mapping, a computer-implemented method may include one or more processors configured for receiving scanning data in a first file format corresponding to 3-dimensional (3D) aerial Light Detection and Ranging (LiDaR) images. Further, the method may include transforming the first file format to a second file format and transmitting the scanning data to a building semantic segmentation component. Further, the computer-implemented…

Upstream visibility in supply-chain

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12099969
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a retailer node, an encrypted inventory of goods data from a plurality of supplier nodes over a blockchain network, computing, by the retailer node, an ordering proportion based on the encrypted inventory of goods data, generating, by the retailer node, an ordering policy based on the ordering proportion, and executing a smart contract to order goods from the plurality of the supplier nodes based on the ordering policy.

Methods, systems, and computer program products for order compliance tracking of electronic components

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12099958
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for order compliance is provided. The present invention may include determining a shipping destination for an order request received from a user, wherein the order request includes one or more items. The present invention may include generating a digital twin for each of the one or more items in the order request. The present invention may include determining a compliance of the order request with a plurality of importation…

Support device deployment

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12099953
A method providing a support device to assist personnel includes receiving data values from various devices associated with a task being performed by personnel, wherein the various devices include at least one Internet of Things (IoT) device and at least one wearable device. The method also includes comparing the received data values to historical data values associated with a pre-established knowledge corpus and identifying the task being performed by the personnel. In response to…

Determining and selecting prediction models over multiple points in time

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12099941
Techniques for generating model ensembles are provided. A plurality of models trained to generate predictions at each of a plurality of intervals is received. A respective prediction accuracy of each respective model of the plurality of models is determined for a first interval of the plurality of intervals by processing labeled evaluation data using the respective model. Additionally, a model ensemble specifying one or more of the plurality of models for each of the plurality of…