Nanosheet-based semiconductor structure with dielectric pillar
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12002850
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a first device disposed on the substrate and a second device disposed on the substrate. The first device includes a first plurality of nanosheets comprising a p-type material. The second device includes a second plurality of nanosheets comprising an n-type material. A dielectric isolation pillar is disposed between the first device and the second device.
RRAM with high work function cap
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12004436
Embodiments of present invention provide a resistive random-access memory (RRAM) cell. The RRAM cell includes a bottom electrode; a metal oxide layer, the metal oxide layer having a central portion that is in direct contact with the bottom electrode, a peripheral portion that is nonplanar with the central portion, and a vertical portion between the central portion and the peripheral portion; and a top electrode directly above the metal oxide layer. A method of manufacturing the RRAM cell…
Tunable resistive random access memory cell
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12004435
A method of manufacturing an RRAM cell includes forming a first wire, forming an insulator on the first wire, the insulator having a pore and an insulator surface, and forming a first electrode layer on the first wire and the insulator, the first electrode having an electrode surface. The method further includes recessing the first electrode layer such that the electrode surface is recessed toward the first wire from the insulator surface, forming a switching layer on the insulator and…
Fill-in confined cell PCM devices
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12004434
A method for manufacturing a phase-change memory device includes providing a substrate including a plurality of bottom electrodes, patterning the substrate to form a plurality of pores in the substrate extending from a surface of the substrate to the bottom electrodes, depositing a phase-change material over the substrate, implanting one or more of a Ge, Sb and Te in the phase-change material to amorphize at least a portion of the phase-change material inside the pore, planarizing the…
Cold plate with uniform plenum flow
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12004322
A cold plate apparatus includes walls that surround an active volume adjacent to an inlet plenum; the walls include an inlet opening at one end of a top side of the inlet plenum and a plenum opening between the inlet plenum and the active volume. Also included is a blocker that partially separates the inlet plenum from the active volume. The blocker is structurally configured to preferentially redirect flow from the inlet plenum into the active volume.
Short or near short etch rework
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12004307
Embodiments are directed to short and/or near short etch rework. A microfluidic device is positioned on a portion of a circuit having a defect. The microfluidic device is caused to dispense etchant that removes the defect of the circuit, where a flow of the etchant is controlled to access the portion of the circuit having the defect to thereby etch away the defect, the flow of the etchant being obstructed from accessing other portions of the circuit. The microfluidic device is used to…
Verifying indicated device location using analysis of real-time display element interaction
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12003968
A computer receives a request to verify a location of a primary device. The computer receives an Indicated Primary Device Location “IPDL”. The computer shows within a display a dynamically located virtual representation of a predetermined Astronomical Reference Object “ARO”. The virtual representation indicates a real-time offset between a Display Reference Indicator “DRI” and the ARO. The computer receives primary device orientation metadata from sensors associated with the…
Rapid initial deployment database security model
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12003542
A method, system, and computer program product for recommending an initial database security model. The method may include identifying a plurality of nodes connected to a security network. The method may also include analyzing security characteristics of each node of the plurality of nodes. The method may also include identifying, from the security characteristics, key factors for each node. The method may also include calculating similarities between each node of the plurality of nodes.…
Analog memory-based complex multiply-accumulate (MACC) compute engine
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12003240
A circuit comprises a first pulse-width modulator configured to generate a first pulse based on a first input, a second pulse-width modulator configured to generate a second pulse based on a second input, a first differential circuit comprising a first transistor, a second transistor, a first resistor, and a second resistor, and a second differential circuit comprising a first transistor, a second transistor, a first resistor, and a second resistor. A gate of the first transistor of the…
Buried power rail contact
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12002874
A semiconductor structure includes a power rail contact at least partially disposed between a first source/drain region of a first vertical fin structure and a second source/drain region of a second vertical fin structure. The power rail contact is in contact with a buried power rail disposed under the first and second vertical fin structures. The power rail contact is in contact with at least one of the first and second source/drain regions. A contact cap is disposed above the power…
Machine logic for job management based on contextual factors
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12001882
Technology for revising a smart contract, including a set of machine logic based rules for job management of jobs to be performed under an SLA (service level agreement). The machine learning algorithm is refined and optimized dynamically based on intermittently received context data (historical, relevant operational data—may be augmented with projections regarding future events and/or operations). Also, the SLA is self-evolving so that its terms also change based an analysis of the…
Dual dielectric pillar fork sheet device
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12002808
A forksheet transistor device includes a dual dielectric pillar that includes a first dielectric and a second dielectric that is different from the first dielectric. The dual dielectric pillar physically separates pFET elements from nFET elements. For example, the first dielectric physically separates a pFET gate from a nFET gate while the second dielectric physically separates a pFET source/drain region from a nFET source drain region. When it is advantageous to electrically connect the…
Local vertical interconnects for monolithic stack transistors
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12002805
A method for forming a stacked transistor includes forming a sacrificial cap over a first interconnect of a lower level transistor. The method further includes forming an upper level transistor above the sacrificial cap. The method further includes removing the sacrificial cap to form an opening such that the opening is delimited by the upper level transistor. The method further includes forming a second interconnect in the opening such that the second interconnect is in direct contact…
Backside metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors extending through backside interlayer dielectric (BILD) layer or semiconductor layer and partly through dielectric layer
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12002758
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device comprises forming backside power rails in a dielectric layer arranged above a backside interlayer dielectric (BILD) layer or a semiconductor layer, forming a trench that extends through the BILD layer or the semiconductor layer and partly through the dielectric layer between the backside power rails, depositing a plurality of layers to form a backside metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor in the trench, and forming a first contact to a first…
Electronic fuse with passive two-terminal phase change material and method of fabrication
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12002753
A semiconductor structure includes a first electrode; a second electrode; a dielectric material between the first electrode and the second electrode, the dielectric material having at least one wall extending from the first electrode to the second electrode to define a void within the dielectric material and between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a layer of phase change material on the at least one wall of the dielectric material and in contact with the first electrode…
Coaxial top MRAM electrode
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12002498
Embodiments of the invention include a semiconductor structure with a first magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) pillar with a bottom electrode layer, a reference layer connected above the bottom electrode layer, a free layer, and a tunnel barrier between the reference layer and the free layer. The MRAM pillar includes a pillar diameter. The semiconductor structure also includes a coaxial top electrode with a top diameter that is less than the pillar diameter.
Autonomous communication initiation responsive to pattern detection
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12002459
A baseline of behavior is determined for a population of users that interact with an autonomous agent that is configured to respond to natural language prompts of users of the population using respective user profiles for each user. An element associated with a first user that deviates more than a threshold amount from the baseline is identified. In response to the element deviating more than the threshold amount, the autonomous agent is caused to engage the first user unprompted…
Method for guiding an emergency vehicle using an unmanned aerial vehicle
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12002370
A method for guiding an emergency vehicle to an emergency site includes receiving an emergency dispatch message including a location of an emergency. Present location information is received for an emergency vehicle. A route between the received present location and the received location of the emergency is calculated using area map data. Navigation guidance is provided to the emergency vehicle based on the calculated route. The calculated route and the present location information for…
Generative adversarial network based audio restoration
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12001950
Mechanisms are provided for implementing a generative adversarial network (GAN) based restoration system. A first neural network of a generator of the GAN based restoration system is trained to generate an artificial audio spectrogram having a target damage characteristic based on an input audio spectrogram and a target damage vector. An original audio recording spectrogram is input to the trained generator, where the original audio recording spectrogram corresponds to an original audio…
Biological neuron to electronic computer interface
Granted: June 4, 2024
Patent Number:
12001942
An apparatus includes a substrate, an array of channels disposed in the substrate, wherein first ends of the channels are exposed to an outside the apparatus, a material disposed in the channel that promotes growth of neural tissue, a plurality of electrodes disposed at second ends of the channels, wherein each channel is aligned with a respective one of the electrodes, and a chip electrically connected to the electrodes.
