IBM Patent Grants

Altering a targeted brain therapeutic based on a brain circuit model

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12100515
Techniques that facilitate altering a targeted brain therapeutic are provided. In one example, a system determines parameter data associated with a circuit model of a biological brain. The system also simulates the circuit model based on the parameter data to generate treatment data associated with the biological brain.

Three-dimensional delineation of tumor boundaries via supervised machine learning algorithms and augmented reality

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12100141
Techniques that facilitate three-dimensional (3D) delineation of tumor boundaries via one or more supervised machine learning algorithms are provided. An example embodiment includes a computer-implemented method that includes: extracting, by a computing system operatively coupled to a processor, one or more feature vectors from a time-series evolution of fluorescence distribution observed at a section of bodily tissue of interest, wherein the one or more feature vectors represent a…

Computer analysis of remotely detected images for image identification

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12100128
In an approach to improve detecting and identifying objects through orbital synthetic aperture radar satellites, embodiments arrange an array of elements in a predetermined configuration, and process, by a threshold and signature analysis, detected peaks in processed image data. Further, embodiments generate a list of objects detections based on the processed peaks, and identify an object based on amplitude, polarization ratio, and polarization phase difference. Additionally,…

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.

Anonymization of partners

Granted: September 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12099963
An example operation may include one or more of acquiring, by a processor node, identification data from an asset producer node over a supply blockchain, generating, by the processor node, a unique identifier (ID) for the asset producer node, and executing a smart contract to: map the ID to the identification data and provide an entitlement to the asset producer node to a plurality of supplier nodes based on the mapped ID.

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…

Incident management in information technology systems

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12093867
An operations management system and related method obtains user activity information representing user interactions with the operations management system responsive to an incident, the incident belonging to a category of incidents. The method represents the user activity information as an itemset. The method further processes the itemset with a mining algorithm to identify one or more items of information frequently accessed for the incident. The method yet further associates the…

User performance analysis and correction for S/W

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12093873
Methods and systems for optimizing user interaction with a software application. One system includes an electronic processor configured to receive a collection of interaction data including a plurality of interaction sequences and data associated with each of the plurality of interaction sequences, determine a performance metric for each of the plurality of interaction sequences, and train, with the collection of interaction data and the performance metric determined for each of the…

Virtual steering wheel with autonomous vehicle

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12091058
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for manual driving of an autonomous vehicle via a virtual steering wheel. The embodiment may include identifying a user request to manually drive an autonomous vehicle. In response to determining that driving credentials of the user are validated, the embodiment may include displaying a virtual steering wheel to the user within the autonomous vehicle. The embodiment may include providing haptic feedback…

Downsampling genomic sequence data

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12093803
In an approach to automatically downsampling DNA sequence data using variational autoencoders and preserving genomic integrity of an original file embodiments execute, by an encoder, bootstrapping on genomic sequence data to produce resamples. Furthermore, embodiments assess, by the encoder, unrepresentativeness and self-inconsistency of the resamples and selecting a representative resample according to the assessment, and build, by a modified encoder, vector representations from…

Gated unit for a gated recurrent neural network

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12093802
The exemplary embodiments disclose a method, a computer program product, and a computer system for a gated recurrent neural network (RNN). The exemplary embodiments may include providing an element processor, providing a distinct memory array for a respective set of one or more elements of a hidden state vector, storing in the memory array a group of columns of weight matrices that enable a computation of the set of one or more elements, computing one or more elements of each of multiple…

Membership leakage quantification to verify data removal

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12093793
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for testing a data removal from a trained machine learning model trained with a training data set are provided. A new machine learning model is trained by using an altered data set that includes training data from the training data set. The altered data set is without removal data. A first forgetting mechanism is applied to the trained machine learning model to form a first revised machine learning model. The applying includes…

Quantum code for reduced frequency collisions in qubit lattices

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12093789
A quantum computer includes a quantum processor that includes a first plurality of qubits arranged in a hexagonal lattice pattern such that each is substantially located at a hexagon apex, and a second plurality of qubits each arranged substantially along a hexagon edge. Each of the first plurality of qubits is coupled to three nearest-neighbor qubits of the second plurality of qubits, and each of the second plurality of qubits is coupled to two nearest-neighbor qubits of the first…

Middleware in web framework

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12093758
Concepts for middleware in a web framework are presented. One example comprises defining a target object type configured to hold results of a middleware function. A first object for an application is received and a process of the middleware function is performed, using the first object, to generate a process result. Based on the process result, a second object of the target object type is generated, after which the second object is provided to the application.

Workload orchestration in a multi-cloud environment

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12093747
In an approach to improve workload orchestration in a multi-cloud environment, embodiments orchestrate and manage a workload in a decentralized multi-cloud environment using one or more smart contracts. Additionally, embodiments measure, by a competency measurement component, competency of cloud services based on one or more predefined cloud benchmarks, a consensus network, and the one or more smart contracts, and generate an orchestration plan that is a best fit for the workload.…

Systems and methods for managing resources in a virtual desktop infrastructure

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12093745
Various approaches for managing one or more computational commodities in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) include receiving a collection of utilization records for a user utilizing a desktop resource supported by the computational commodity in a desktop pool, each utilization record corresponding to a utilization rate of the computational commodity by the user; and augmenting or reducing allocation of the computational commodity to the desktop resource utilized by the user based at…

Software container prestart configuration with kubectl prestart runtime commands

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12093720
A container specification is received. The container specification includes a definition of an image. The image definition specifies the running of one or more prestart runtime commands. The image definition is inspected to identify whether the image definition includes specifying the running of one or more prestart runtime commands. The image is started on a host system, wherein in response to identifying that the image definition includes running one or more prestart runtime commands,…

Integrated authentication for container-based environment

Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12093710
Techniques for integrated authentication for a container-based environment are described herein. An aspect includes accessing, by an application that is running in a container in a container environment that is hosted by a hypervisor on a host system, an authentication module that is located in the container environment. Another aspect includes invoking an authentication handler in the container environment based on the accessing of the authentication module. Another aspect includes…