Self-aligned via to metal line for interconnect
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12080640
Interconnect structures having top vias self-aligned to metal line ends and techniques for formation thereof are provided. In one aspect, an interconnect structure includes: at least one metal line disposed on a substrate; at least one top via over the at least one metal line, wherein the at least one top via is aligned with an end of the at least one metal line, and wherein a sidewall of the at least one top via is curved. A dielectric fill material can be disposed adjacent to the at…
Digital presentation sharing and audience incentivization
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12081837
Systems, methods and/or computer program products issuing and transferring presentation rights between users during digital events using NFTs and incentivizing audiences to remain active attendees of digital event as new presenters take over the presentation. Value exchanged for obtaining NFTs representing presentation rights can correlate to a speaker score which is calculated using audience metrics collected by the platform. Presenters with higher presenter scores and larger or more…
Time dependent line equalizer for data transmission systems
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12081642
A data equalization system includes a data clock input configured to receive a clock signal. There is an input node operative to receive a data signal of transmission symbols that change state synchronously with the clock signal. There is a first tap coupled to the input node. A second tap is configured to receive a variation of the data signal. At least one of a weight of the first tap or a weight of the second tap is modulated by a dynamic control parameter that repeats synchronously…
Automatic ransomware detection and mitigation
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12081583
A method, computer program product, and system for detecting and mitigating ransomware using snapshot-based backups applied to a block-oriented storage device, by performing the following operations: (i) performing, in predetermined time-intervals, snapshot backups of data in a block-oriented storage device; (ii) determining at least one interval malware index value between a last snapshot backup and a next planned snapshot backup, wherein the interval malware index value is indicative…
Enhancing investment account security
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12081547
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for account security is provided. The present invention may include analyzing one or more financial accounts of a user and assigning a risk threshold to each of the one or more financial accounts. The present invention may include monitoring a vulnerability of each of the one or more financial accounts, wherein the vulnerability is monitored using a vulnerability score, the vulnerability score being generated based on user data.…
Feedback enabled network curation of relevant content thread
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12081508
A computer-implemented method includes identifying, by a computer device, particular users of a digital publishing platform, the particular users being users that have commented on previous content published by a first user; identifying, by the computer device, correlated users, the correlated users being those particular users that have published a pertinent comment; assessing, by the computer device, a satisfaction level of the first user with each pertinent comment; identifying, by…
Link clouds and user/community-driven dynamic interlinking of resources
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12081413
A network-based communication and information discovery solution that pertains to network-accessible resources and the use of interlinks among resources. In one embodiment, dynamic interlinking of resources is proposed, wherein the resources reside in a web-based system and are accessible via web-clients. The resources can be representable by an administrator in a graph-like structure interlinking the resources with each other and thus defining a navigation model. An extended navigation…
Topology-homogeneity for enriching event patterns in artificial intelligence operations
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12081385
A method for determining a correlation of one or more events occurring in a plurality of nodes of a network includes accessing, by a computing device, address information associated with each of the plurality of nodes on the network. The computing device can further access one or more event IDs associated with one or more events occurring on the plurality of nodes. The computing device can further create an association the one or more events occurring on the plurality of nodes with…
Non-sealed apparatus for batteries with a containment structure for gasses
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12080911
A non-sealed apparatus for batteries with a containment structure for gasses that includes a battery enclosure with an upper portion and a lower portion. The apparatus further includes a plurality of batteries disposed in a lower portion of the battery enclosure. The apparatus has at least one battery containment structure disposed in an upper portion of the battery enclosure, which is configured to move downward thereby sealing the plurality of batteries upon a condition. Further, a…
Buried local interconnect between complementary field-effect transistor cells
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12080714
An integrated circuit component includes a first layer including first and second areas of epitaxy material. The first layer has a first polarity. The component further includes a second layer including third and fourth areas of epitaxy material. The second layer has a second polarity that is different than the first polarity. The third area is arranged at least partially above the first area, and the fourth area is arranged at least partially above the second area. The integrated…
Serverless application function execution
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12079651
Executing serverless application functions is provided. A response to a user request for a service is received with an include callback parameter and a transaction identifier of the user request included in a header of the response from an external service via a network. A checkpoint of a container corresponding to the service is retrieved from a data store using the transaction identifier of the user request. The container corresponding to the service is restored using the checkpoint to…
Using a same mask for direct print and self-aligned double patterning of nanosheets
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12080559
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a nanosheet stack including alternating layers of a sacrificial material and a channel material over a substrate, the layers of channel material providing nanosheet channels for one or more nanosheet field-effect transistors. The method also includes forming a hard mask stack over the nanosheet stack, and forming a patterning layer over the hard mask stack. The method further includes patterning a lithographic mask over the…
Healthcare application insight compilation sensitivity
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12080433
Dynamically moderating healthcare application data. Receive an incoming data load request comprising a plurality of referential data elements and assess a downstream query impact of the plurality of referential data elements. Determine, based on the assessing, a sensitivity level of the plurality of referential data elements, and alter, based on the sensitivity level, compilation of insights generated using the plurality of referential data elements and compilation of a plurality of…
Risk based presentation of healthcare protocols
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12080396
A system and method of visually displaying healthcare protocols to a user receives from the user, via an electronic communications network, search term(s) associated with a health-related condition. A corpus of document(s) stored in an electronic format is identified with a computer and, based on the search term(s), at least one of the document(s) is analyzed with the computer for a treatment protocol associated with the health-related condition. First content for presentation to the…
Enhancing machine translation of handwritten documents
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12080089
A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product enhance machine translation of a document. The method includes capturing an image of the document. The document includes a plurality of characters that are arranged in a character layout. The method also includes classifying the image by a document type based on the character layout. The method further includes determining a strategy for an intelligent character recognition (ICR) algorithm with the image…
Enhancing images in text documents
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12079912
Images placed in documents are enhanced based on the context in which the image is used. Context is determined according to document-specific indicators such as nearby text, headings, titles, and tables of content. A generative adversarial network (GAN) modifies the image according to the context to selectively emphasize relevant components of the image, which may include erasing or deleting irrelevant components. Relevant general-purpose images may be retrieved for use in the document…
Audiovisual source separation and localization using generative adversarial networks
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12079731
A method (and structure and computer product) for an audiovisual source separation processing, including receiving video data including images of a plurality of sound sources, receiving an optical flow data of the video data, the optical flow data indicating motions of pixels between frames of the video data, and encoding the received video data into video localization data comprising information associating pixels in the frames of video data with different channels of sound.
Neural apparatus for a neural network system
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12079707
A neural apparatus for a neural network system may be configured to receive one or more input signals during a decode time period, decode the one or more input signals during the decode time period, resulting in a decoded signal, and upon termination of the decode time period, process the decoded signal using internal neuron dynamics. The processed signal may be used to encode and emit one or more output signals in a subsequent decode time period to another neural apparatus of the neural…
Selection of stream management operations based on machine learning in a distributed computing environment
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12079659
Computer software that causes a stream processing management node to perform the following operations: (i) establishing data communication between the stream processing management node and a plurality of stream processing instances executing on respective computing environments in a multi-environment computing system; (ii) distributing one or more processing units of a stream processing job to a first set of stream processing instances of the plurality of stream processing instances;…
Detection of invalid machine-specific data types during data conversion
Granted: September 3, 2024
Patent Number:
12079658
A conversion operation is performed which includes a plurality of conversion actions. A conversion action includes processing an instruction to convert selected data from a source data type to a target data type. The processing includes determining whether a data type indicated using the instruction is a valid data type for a select machine. The data type is a selected data type selected from the source data type or the target data type. The selected data is converted from the source…
