IBM Patent Grants

Quantum transducers with embedded optical resonators

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12015185
Techniques regarding quantum transducers are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can include an apparatus that can include a superconducting microwave resonator having a microstrip architecture that includes a dielectric layer positioned between a superconducting waveguide and a ground plane. The apparatus can also include an optical resonator positioned within the dielectric layer.

Superconducting qubit and resonator system based on the Josephson ring modulator

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12016254
A superconducting quantum mechanical device includes first, second, third and fourth Josephson junctions connected in a bridge circuit having first, second and third resonance eigenmodes. The device also includes first and second capacitor pads. The first and second capacitor pads and the bridge circuit form a superconducting qubit having a resonance frequency corresponding to the first resonance eigenmode. The device further includes first and second resonator sections. The first and…

Spin-orbit torque and spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random-access memory stack

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12016251
Embodiments disclosed herein include a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure may include a spin transfer torque (STT) magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) stack. The semiconductor structure may also include a spin orbit torque (SOT) MRAM stack vertically in series with the STT-MRAM. The SOT-MRAM stack may include a heavy metal spin hall effect rail configured to flip an SOT free-layer magnetic orientation in response to a horizontal signal through the heavy metal…

Liquid metal infiltration rework of electronic assembly

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12016127
Provided is a method for removing an electronic component from a printed wiring board. The method comprises applying an embrittlement agent to a lead of an electronic component that is soldered to the printed wiring board. The electronic component is removed from the printed wiring board by breaking the embrittled lead.

Trusted aggregation with data privacy based on zero-knowledge-proofs

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12015715
A processor may commit, anonymously, an identity and associated data of a resource producer on a blockchain by an independent gateway. The processor may generate a Merkle tree hash commitment to the blockchain of all resources handled by an aggregator. The processor may execute individual commitments of a resource to a user. The processor may provide a zero-knowledge-proof that proves that the commitment of the identity and associated data of the resource producer and the Merkle tree…

Security as a service for machine learning

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12015691
Embodiments are disclosed for a method. The method includes validating training data that is provided for training a machine learning model using ordinary differential equations. The method further includes generating pre-processed training data from the validated training data by generating encrypted training data from the validated training data using homomorphic encryption and generating random noise based on the validated training data. The method also includes training the machine…

Optimized transmission and consumption of digital content

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12015659
A system may include a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor may be configured to perform operations. The operations may include extracting a first multiple dimensional dataset and a second multiple dimensional dataset and encoding the first multiple dimensional dataset into a first encoded dataset and the second multiple dimensional dataset into a second encoded dataset. The operations may include combining the first encoded dataset and the second…

Transmitter with uniform driver segment activity

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12015510
A circuit includes at least three equally weighted drivers; a state variable generator; and an element selector. The latter is coupled to the drivers, has a first input from the generator, has a second input including a plurality of input thermometer-encoded data streams, and has an output of an equal number of thermometer-encoded output data streams supplied to the drivers. The element selector maps the second input to the output dynamically based on a value of the first input from the…

High connectivity parametric gate

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12015397
One or more systems, devices, and/or methods of manufacture and/or use provided herein relate to a quantum computing process to achieve higher connectivity of qubits to more than nearest neighbors and/or to a plurality of nearest neighbors. A system can comprise a tunable first coupler coupled to a first qubit, a tunable second coupler coupled to a second qubit, and a junction coupling the first coupler and the second coupler being both parametrically drivable. The first coupler and the…

Card retention connector system

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12015217
An electronic component assembly includes a board having an electronic component, a connector mounted to the board and electrically connected to the electronic component and having an anchoring feature positioned on an exterior of the connector, and a card having another electronic component and a securing feature. The electronic component assembly also includes a movable member positioned on one of the connector or the card. The movable member is positioned in the securing feature and…

Synchronizing HTTP requests with respective HTML context

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12013904
Synchronizing requests with a respective context includes, responsive to a determination that there are more pages to explore, performing regular crawling operations for a current page, recording a current page in a list of explored pages and extracting links from the current page. Responsive to a determination that there are more links to extract, a next link to analyze is selected to form a selected link and responsive to a determination that there is a new request associated with the…

Side erasure control for track writing in a system

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12014755
In one aspect of the present disclosure, the degree of side erasure occurring in neighboring tracks is controlled by controlling the skew angle of the tape head, relative to the longitudinal direction of motion of the tape past the head as a track is written. In one embodiment, the tape head is rotated relative to the longitudinal direction of tape travel, and the trailing edge of the tape head which forms an acute angle with the edge of a track being written, is used for writing tracks…

Hyper-detection of user activity

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12014299
Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer system a computer program product, and a method that comprises determining a task that is being performed based on a set of observed micromovements; in response to determining the task that is being performed, detecting an anomaly in at least one micromovement in the set of observed micromovements based on a comparison of the at least one micromovement to one or more micromovements associated with an established baseline of…

Electronic health record data synthesization

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12014293
The present disclosure relates to a method, system and computer program product for electronic health record (EHR) data synthetization. According to the method, an original EHR dataset X is captured. A latent space Z is generated from the original EHR dataset X, wherein dimensionality of Z is lower than that of X. A stochastic process prior module is applied to the latent space Z. Synthetic EHR dataset X? is reconstructed from the latent space Z after being applied with the stochastic…

Batch scoring model fairness

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12014287
A system and related method score a fairness of an outcome model. The method comprises receiving a set of original transaction records (OTRs), and selecting an OTR subset of the OTRs according to a subset selection criteria in order to reduce a number of OTRs to send to outcome model. For each OTR in the subset a perturbed transaction record (PTR) is created based on the OTR that includes changing at least one attribute in the PTR from the OTR, sending the OTR and the PTR to the outcome…

Learning-based automatic selection of AI applications

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12014220
An embodiment for learning-based automatic selection of artificial intelligence applications. The embodiment may receive a user request for an exam, the user request including exam information. The embodiment may automatically identify an exam type cluster corresponding to the received exam information. The embodiment may automatically detect applicable AI applications corresponding to the identified exam type cluster. The embodiment may automatically run each applicable AI application…

Running smaller memory-address width program code in a larger memory-address width address space

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12014198
Method and system are provided for running a smaller memory-address width program in a larger memory-address width address space. The method includes: dividing a smaller memory-address width program executable code into a set of portions; reserving a first virtual storage area in a part of an address space accessed using a smaller memory-address width address; and reserving a set of second virtual storage areas in a part of the address space accessed using a larger memory-address width…

Variable formatting of branch target buffer

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12014182
Embodiments include a hierarchical metadata prediction system that includes a first line-based predictor having a first line for storage of metadata entries, and a second line-based predictor configured to store metadata entries from the first line-based predictor. The second line-based predictor has a second line, the second line including a plurality of containers, the plurality of containers including at least a first set of containers having a first size and a second set of…

Machine learning for training NLP agent

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12014142
A computer-implemented process for training a natural language processing (NLP) agent having a reinforced learning model includes the following operations. A type of document from a document corpus is identified using metadata particularly associated with the document. The NLP agent tokenizes the document to generate a plurality of tokens. Using a schema identified from the type of the document, one of the plurality of tokens is compared to a system of record (SOR) field from the schema.…

Behavior based menu item recommendation and pruning

Granted: June 18, 2024
Patent Number: 12014026
Using a set of menu to key process mappings, historical menu usage data for an application is aggregated into aggregated key process usage data. A set of key process association rules, each comprising a consequent key process given a particular antecedent key process, is generated. From the set of key process association rules and a set of ranked menus by frequency of usage within each key process, a set of model menu recommendations is generated. According to an application usage…