Training end-to-end spoken language understanding systems with unordered entities
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12046236
Training data can be received, which can include pairs of speech and meaning representation associated with the speech as ground truth data. The meaning representation includes at least semantic entities associated with the speech, where the spoken order of the semantic entities is unknown. The semantic entities of the meaning representation in the training data can be reordered into spoken order of the associated speech using an alignment technique. A spoken language understanding…
Current biased tunable qubit
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12047063
Techniques for designing, creating, and utilizing a current biased tunable qubit are presented. A qubit device can comprise a first Josephson junction (JJ) located along a first current path of the device, and a second JJ and third JJ coupled in series along a second current path in parallel with the first current path, wherein the second and third JJs facilitate controlling frequency of the device. The first JJ can be larger in area than each of the second and third JJs, wherein a…
Current mode transconductance capacitance filter within a radio frequency digital to analog converter
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12047048
A filter stage system, includes a continuous time baseband filter comprising a feedback loop that employs at least one first impedance node and at least one second impedance node, wherein the at least one first impedance node has a higher impedance than the at least one second impedance node, and wherein the at least one first impedance node provides a dominant pole and the at least one second impedance node provides a non-dominant pole, and wherein the continuous time baseband filter…
Inner spacer formation for nanosheet transistors
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12046680
A semiconductor structure comprises a plurality of gate structures alternately stacked with a plurality of channel layers, and a plurality of spacers disposed on lateral sides of the plurality of gate structures. The respective ones of the plurality of spacers comprise a profile having a first portion comprising a first shape and a second portion comprising a second shape, wherein the first shape is different from the second shape.
Vertical transistor and method of forming the vertical transistor
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12046673
A semiconductor device including a fin structure formed on a first semiconductor region, and a first semiconductor structure controlling the first semiconductor region, the first semiconductor structure formed on a substrate and spaced apart from the first semiconductor region including the fin structure.
Semiconductor structures with power rail disposed under active gate
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12046643
Semiconductor structures are disclosed which comprise semiconductor devices having buried power rails. In one example, a semiconductor structure comprises a plurality of semiconductor devices. Each of the semiconductor devices is isolated from an adjacent semiconductor device by a dielectric layer. The semiconductor structure further comprises a first diffusion break extending across the plurality of semiconductor devices, a second diffusion break extending across the plurality of…
Selective metal residue and liner cleanse for post-subtractive etch
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12046511
Structures in semiconductor devices, and methods for forming the structures, are described. In one embodiment, a hard mask layer of a deposition stack can be etched to pattern a hard mask. An interconnect layer of the deposition stack can be etched using the hard mask to pattern a plurality of metal lines. The hard mask can be removed. A liner layer of the deposition stack can be etched to remove a portion of the liner layer deposited directly on a dielectric layer of the deposition…
Device with reconfigurable short term data retention
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12046282
The invention is notably directed to a device comprising a plurality of resistive memory elements. The plurality of resistive memory elements comprises a resistive material. The device is configured to apply programming pulses to a subset of the plurality of resistive memory elements to perform a temporary resistance change of the resistive material of the subset for a predefined retention period, thereby programming the subset of the plurality of resistive elements from a first…
Directional voice command identification
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12046252
Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer system a computer program product, and a method that comprises analyzing a received directional voice command by identifying a plurality of contextual factors associated with at least one user in a plurality of users using a natural language processing algorithm; dynamically identifying the at least one user in the plurality of users based on an analysis of the identified contextual factors associated with the received directional…
Dynamically resolving names and acronyms
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12046245
At least one target in a speech of a first speaker during an electronic conference is identified. A closest vector between the identified target and a group of possible matches for the target is determined. A most similar match for the identified target is determined based on a current usage context for the identified target, a history of stored information associated with the first speaker and the identified target, and the determined closest vector. The most similar match to a set of…
Assistance management system
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12046077
A method can include determining an assistance-initiating characteristic corresponding to a user. Determining the assistance-initiating characteristic can be based, at least in part, on a user action by the user. The method can further include generating an adaptation corresponding to the assistance-initiating characteristic. Generating the adaptation can include automatically adjusting an adaptable device.
Unification of models having respective target classes with distillation
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12046023
Generating soft labels used for training a unified model is achieved by unification of models having respective target classes with distillation. A collection of samples is prepared. Predictions are generated by individual trained models. Individual trained models have an individual class set to form a unified class set that includes target classes. The unified soft labels are estimated for each sample over the target classes in the unified class set from the predictions using a relation…
Enhancing data in a screenshot
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039254
A computer-implemented method of enhancing data in a screenshot can include capturing a screenshot of content presented on a display and identifying within the content at least a first element comprising first semantic data. A first semantic representation of the first semantic data can be generated and the first semantic representation can be associated with the first element. The first semantic representation and the screenshot can be output.
Semi-active magnetic shielding for qubit unit components of quantum computing apparatuses
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039403
A computer-implemented method of reducing an impact of stray magnetic fields on components of a quantum computing chip is disclosed. The computer implemented method includes applying a first current signal to a first component of a quantum computing chip, whereby the first component generates a stray magnetic field impacting an operation of a second component of the quantum computing chip. The computer implemented method further includes applying a compensation current signal to a…
Color-map method to eliminate qubit frequency crowding in a quantum computing chip
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039402
A method of frequency allocation in a quantum device having a plurality of qubits includes determining a plurality of frequency groups based on a configuration of the plurality of qubits; determining, for each of the plurality of qubits, a qubit frequency; assigning a frequency group from the plurality of frequency groups to each of the plurality of qubits based on each respective qubit frequency; determining for at least one qubit of the plurality of qubits whether a frequency collision…
Program context migration
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039365
A collection of code fragments loaded in an interactive development platform for running on a first processor can be received. A candidate fragment in the collection of code fragments can be determined for migration to a second processor based on characterizing the collection of code fragments. Based on a location of the candidate fragment in the collection of code fragments, a spot can be identified in the collection of code fragments to inject a code for saving program context. The…
Image optimization for pipeline workloads
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039321
A computer implemented method, apparatus, system, and computer program product manages updates to images. A computer system determines shared layers present between the images selected for update management. The images comprise executable code that are run to create containers. The computer system detects a change in a shared layer in the shared layers for an image in the images. The computer system updates the shared layer in the shared layers in a set of the images having the shared…
Computer process management
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039299
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises identifying a theme of a process based on a set of communication information. The set of communication information is generated corresponding to performing the process. The method further comprises determining a plurality of roles in the process at least partly based on the set of communication information. The plurality of roles performs respective actions during performing the process. The method further comprises generating a…
Feature vector generation for probabalistic matching
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039273
A computer-implemented method increases the efficiency of matching records from two sources. The method includes identifying a first source and a second source wherein each of the sources include one or more records and each record includes one or more attributes. The method further includes determining, based on a corpus, the one or more attributes and generating, based on the attributes, a set of feature vectors which vectors represent the one or more attributes. The method includes…
Methods and system for the extraction of properties of variables using automatically detected variable semantics and other resources
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039266
A computer-implemented method of extracting properties of one or more variables of a mathematical transformation in a document identified by automatic feature engineering (AFE) is provided. The document is parsed to extract at least one of a mathematical formula including identifying data, a textual description of the one or more variables of the mathematical transformation, or a category identifier to which the document belongs. Constraints are determined to apply to the one or more…
