Authentication of packaged products
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12056719
Methods are provided for producing an authenticated packaged product. A digital signature, dependent on unique message data for the product, is generated via a digital signature scheme using a secret signing key. The message data is provided on at least one of the product and packaging. The digital signature is provided on the other of the product and packaging, and the product is packed in the packaging. The digital signature can be generated via a fuzzy-message digital signature scheme…
Top via interconnects without barrier metal between via and above line
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12057395
Embodiments of the invention include a method for fabricating a semiconductor device and the resulting structure. A high modulus material layer is formed on a conductive stack. A trench is formed that exposes a surface of the liner and filled with metal. The metal is patterned to form interconnect lines and vias. The high modulus material is removed. A conformal layer is formed on exposed surfaces of the stack and the interconnect lines and vias. A low-? dielectric is formed on the…
Decoupling capacitor inside gate cut trench
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12057387
An approach to forming a semiconductor device where the semiconductor device includes a first power rail with one or more vertically stacked contact vias connecting to the first power rail to a portion of a first de-coupling capacitor. The semiconductor device includes the first de-coupling capacitor in a first portion of a semiconductor substrate in a first gate cut trench.
Semiconductor device with early buried power rail (BPR) and backside power distribution network (BSPDN)
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12057371
A semiconductor structure includes a power distribution network including a first buried power rail, a power wire, and a first buried via electrically interconnecting the first buried power rail and the power wire. Each of the first buried power rail, the power wire, and the first buried via have a liner on a corresponding bottom surface thereof and sidewalls thereof. The structure also includes a dielectric layer outward of the power distribution network; a first field effect transistor…
Methods for etching metal films using plasma processing
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12057322
A method of plasma processing that includes maintaining a plasma processing chamber between 10° C. to 200° C., flowing oxygen and nitrogen into the plasma processing chamber, where a ratio of a flow rate of the nitrogen to a flow rate of oxygen is between about 1:5 and about 1:1, and etching a ruthenium/osmium layer by sustaining a plasma in the plasma processing chamber.
Personalized medication non-adherence evaluation
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12057206
A method, a computer program product, and a computer system predict medication adherence of a patient. The method includes identifying risk factors associated with medication adherence of the patient. The method includes determining a likely behaviour for medication adherence of the patient based on the identified risk factors and a temporal causal model. The temporal causal model is based on features of a patient cluster to which the patient belongs. The features are nodes in the…
Line item detection in borderless tabular structured data
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12056948
In an approach, a processor identifies a plurality of text separators in a borderless table, a text separator of the plurality of text separators defining a non-text region between two consecutive text lines in the borderless table. A processor classifies the plurality of text separators into a number of target clusters comprised in a target group based on property information related to the plurality of text separators, the number of target clusters corresponding to a number of…
Predicting a time of non-real time posts using contextual metadata
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12056774
A computer-implemented prediction method, system, and computer program product including detecting an anomaly between at least two images in a social media timeline, analyzing at least one of contextual data and image data associated with the at least two images that cause the anomaly, and predicting an actual time of the at least two images in the social media timeline based on the analyzed at least one of contextual data and image data.
Commerce driven feedback mechanism for consumer products
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12056744
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for cultivation feedback is provided. The present invention may include performing one or more parameter readings of one or more consumer products and storing the one or more parameter readings on a blockchain. The present invention may include determining a correlation between the one or more parameter readings and the one or more properties of the one or more consumer products. The present invention may include receiving…
System and method for unsupervised abstraction of sensitive data for detection model sharing across entities
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12056720
An abstraction system for generating a standard customer profile may receive customer data and perform unsupervised learning on the customer data to produce a plurality of clusters of customers with a plurality of features in common, determine that a cluster represents a standard customer and store a plurality of standard customer profiles based on the determined standard customers. The abstraction system may also provide the standard customer profiles to a cognitive system for…
Applying machine learning to learn relationship weightage in risk networks
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12056707
A computer-implemented system, method and computer program product for detecting fraud. The system and method receives data representing transacting parties where a party transacts with another party to define a relationship therebetween. The received data is incorporated into a relationship network graph comprising nodes that capture data about transacting parties and corresponding information associated with each transaction. A risk model is run that is configured to determine a risk…
Real-time space reservation using augmented reality
Granted: August 6, 2024
Patent Number:
12056628
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for real-time space reservation using augmented reality (AR) is provided. The present invention may include, receiving, by an AR device, a visual input of a user environment. The present invention may include, correlating, by the AR device, the received visual input with reservation data associated with the user environment. The present invention may include, displaying, by the AR device, an augmented view of the user environment…
Generating incident explanations using spatio-temporal log clustering
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12050506
An embodiment includes detecting a set of anomalies recorded during a first predefined window of time in log entries for a computer environment. The embodiment also includes generating cluster data representative of a cluster of anomalies from among the set of anomalies, where the cluster is formed using a lattice clustering algorithm that spatially distinguishes the cluster of anomalies from other anomalies in the set of anomalies. The embodiment also includes composing an explanation…
Just in time assembly of transactions
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12050946
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. Embodiments of the present invention can dynamically determine one or more endpoints to fulfill a user request. Embodiments of the present invention can select the dynamically determined one or more endpoints as the one or more endpoints that fulfill the user request. Embodiments of the present invention can execute the selected one or more endpoints to fulfill the user request.
Preventing resource exploitation in mobile devices
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12050937
A method, system, and computer program product for preventing resource exploitation in mobile devices are provided. The method receives a resource request from a mobile application stored on a mobile computing device. A device context is determined for the mobile computing device. A resource consumption context is determined for the mobile computing device based on the device context and resource consumption of one or more mobile applications operating on the mobile computing device. In…
Partition migration with critical task prioritization
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12050930
An embodiment includes issuing an indication that a thread is a time-critical thread. The embodiment initiates an active partition migration, from a source server to a destination server, of a source partition on which the program is stored. The embodiment stores, during the migration, records of locations of pages in memory referenced by the time-critical thread. The embodiment detects that a migration threshold has been reached, indicative of a threshold portion of the migration being…
Contextual dialogue framework over dynamic tables
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12050877
Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a contextual dialogue framework over dynamic tables are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes maintaining a context space for a natural language conversation of a user, wherein the context space comprises a dynamic set of one or more tables used for processing at least one query of the natural language conversation; obtaining an additional table associated with an additional query of the natural language…
Maintenance of a data glossary
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12050866
A system may receive a data glossary comprising a list of terms. The system may then measure a usage dimension for a set of the terms from the list of terms. The system may select a candidate term from the set based on the usage dimension and perform a maintenance action on the candidate terms.
Signal pre-routing in an integrated circuit design
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12050852
Based on a directive in a control file, a processor pre-routes, within a hierarchical integrated circuit design, a signal through one or more levels of design hierarchy between a signal source at a higher level of the design hierarchy and an entity instance at a lower level of the design hierarchy. The processor processes entity instances in the design hierarchy in a bottom-up manner to insert technology-specific structures into the hierarchical integrated circuit design. During the…
Filler cells for integrated circuit design
Granted: July 30, 2024
Patent Number:
12050850
A method of designing an integrated circuit (IC) chip is discloses. The method includes designing a higher level comprising a plurality of outputs configured to be connected to inputs in a previously-designed macro level, wherein each input in the macro level includes a configurable filler cell. The method also includes calculating if each input includes an antenna violation based on the higher level and the macro level, and configuring each of the filler cells, wherein each filler cell…
