Microelectronic assemblies having topside power delivery structures
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12211796
Microelectronic assemblies, related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a package substrate including a first conductive pathway electrically coupled to a power source; a first microelectronic component, embedded in an insulating material on the surface of the package substrate, including a through-substrate via (TSV) electrically coupled to the first conductive pathway; a second microelectronic component embedded in the…
Self cooling adaptive flow branching heat exchanger system for cooling of one or more semiconductor chips
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12213288
An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a liquid cooling system having multiple heat-exchangers and multiple valves. The multiple valves are to enable/disable participation of individual ones of the heat-exchangers within the liquid cooling system. The apparatus includes an information keeping device to store information that correlates a number of the multiple heat exchangers to be enabled to realize one or more semiconductor chips' target temperature for a power consumption…
Enhanced high efficiency frames for wireless communications
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12213115
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to using enhanced high efficiency (HE) frames. A device may determine a high efficiency signal-B (HE-SIG-B) field for a high efficiency (HE) frame, the HE-SIG-B field comprising a common information field and a user information field. The device may determine a data portion of the HE frame, wherein the data portion includes one or more resource units (RUs) with a size equal to a number of tones. The device may determine a…
Tracking area update for moving cell and timing advance broadcast for non-terrestrial networks
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12213096
Various embodiments herein provide techniques for indication of a tracking area and/or timing advance for a cell of a wireless cellular network. In embodiments, the techniques may be used for a moving cell and/or a non-terrestrial network (NTN). Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
Security for multi-link operation
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12212970
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to security for multi-link operation. A device may determine a multi-link communication with a first multi-link device comprising two or more links associated with two or more station devices (STAs) included in the first multi-link device. The device may determine a first medium access control (MAC) address associated with a first link of the two or more links. The device may determine a second MAC address associated with a…
Confidential computing in heterogeneous compute environment including network-connected hardware accelerator
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12212657
An apparatus to facilitate confidential computing in a heterogeneous compute environment including a network-connected hardware accelerator is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor to provide a first trusted execution environment (TEE) to run an application, and to send, via the application to a user mode driver (UMD) hosted in first the TEE, a command to transfer data of the application to a hardware accelerator device that is connected via network to the application; encrypt…
Offload of decryption operations
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12212600
Examples described herein relate to a Transport Layer Security (TLS) offload engine to: based on detection of encrypted data unassociated with a previously detected data header: search for one or more data headers; identify at least two candidate data headers for validation; and based on receipt of an indication that the at least two candidate data headers are valid, perform decryption of received data in one or more packets. In some examples, the TLS offload engine is to: based on…
Reliable transport architecture
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12212502
Examples described herein relate to technologies for reliable packet transmission. In some examples, a network interface includes circuitry to: receive a request to transmit a packet to a destination device, select a path for the packet, provide a path identifier identifying one of multiple paths from the network interface to a destination and Path Sequence Number (PSN) for the packet, wherein the PSN is to identify a packet transmission order over the selected path, include the PSN in…
Communication device
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12212351
Various aspects provide a transceiver and a communication device including the transceiver. In an example, the transceiver includes an amplifier circuit including an amplifier stage with an adjustable degeneration component, the amplifier stage configured to amplify a received input signal with an adjustable gain, an adjustable feedback component coupled to the amplifier stage; and a controller coupled to the amplifier stage and to the adjustable feedback component and configured to…
Device contact sizing in integrated circuit structures
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12211898
Discussed herein is device contact sizing in integrated circuit (IC) structures. In some embodiments, an IC structure may include: a first source/drain (S/D) contact in contact with a first S/D region, and a second S/D contact in contact with a second S/D region, wherein the first S/D region and the second S/D region have a same length, and the first S/D contact and the second S/D contact have different lengths.
Dynamic gate steps for last-level programming to improve write performance
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12211563
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that conducts a pulse-verify loop sequence from a first program level in targeted NAND memory cells to a next-to-last program level in the memory cells, wherein the pulse-verify loop sequence includes an issuance of a program pulse and one or more verify pulses to the memory cells on a per program level basis, and wherein successive program pulses differ from one another by a gate step voltage amount. The technology may also…
Noise reduction using specific disturbance models
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12211512
An example apparatus for reducing to reduce noise in audio includes a preprocessor to receive audio input from a microphone and preprocess the audio input to generate preprocessed audio. The apparatus also includes an acoustic event detector to detect an acoustic event corresponding to a disturbance in the preprocessed audio. The apparatus further includes a noise reduction model selector to select a specific disturbance model based on the detected acoustic event. The apparatus further…
Deep learning inference efficiency technology with early exit and speculative execution
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12211260
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that processes an inference workload in a first subset of layers of a neural network that prevents or inhibits data dependent branch operations, conducts an exit determination as to whether an output of the first subset of layers satisfies one or more exit criteria, and selectively bypasses processing of the output in a second subset of layers of the neural network based on the exit determination. The technology may also…
Apparatus and method to detect power supply security attack and risk mitigation
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210620
Hardware based unsupervised based machine-learning (ML) approach to identify a security threat to the processor (e.g., caused by probing of a power supply rail). An apparatus is provided which includes an on-die power supply droop detector as a feature extractor. The droop detector detects a droop in the power supply caused by a probe physically coupling to the power supply rail. The droop detector in combination with machine-learning logic detects change in power supply rail impedance…
Systems and methods for multi-modal user device authentication
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210604
Systems and methods for multi-modal user device authentication are disclosed. An example electronic device includes a first sensor, a microphone, a first camera, and a confidence analyzer to authenticate a subject as the authorized user in response to a user presence detection analyzer detecting a presence of the subject and one or more of (a) an audio data analyzer detecting a voice of an authorized user or (b) an image data analyzer detecting a feature of the authorized user. The…
Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) with scalable meta data
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210456
A memory is described. The memory includes row buffer circuitry to store a page. The page is divided into sections, wherein, at least one of the sections of the page is to be sequestered for the storage of meta data, and wherein, a first subset of column address bits is to: 1) define a particular section of the page, other than the at least one sequestered sections of the page, whose data is targeted by a burst access; and, 2) define a field within the at least one of the sequestered…
Apparatus and method for a closed-loop dynamic resource allocation control framework
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210434
An apparatus and method for closed loop dynamic resource allocation. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: collecting data related to usage of a plurality of resources by a plurality of workloads over one or more time periods, the workloads including priority workloads associated with one or more guaranteed performance levels and best effort workloads not associated with guaranteed performance levels; analyzing the data to identify resource reallocations from one or more of…
Apparatus, system and method of encoding/decoding data according to a parity function
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12206496
For example, an apparatus may include an encoder configured to encode data into a plurality of codewords according to a parity function for a transmission modulated according to a Differential Modulation (DM) scheme, and/or a decoder to decode received codewords of the transmission.
Size based transform unit context derivation
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12206897
Systems, apparatus, articles, and methods are described including operations for size based transform unit context derivation. In an example encoder, first circuitry is to encode video input data into a bitstream according to a bitstream syntax, wherein the video input data includes one or more pictures, the one or more pictures are partitioned into one or more coding tree blocks, the one or more coding tree blocks are partitioned into slices including one or more coding tree blocks, the…
Multi-entity resource, security, and service management in edge computing deployments
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12206552
Various aspects of methods, systems, and use cases for multi-entity (e.g., multi-tenant) edge computing deployments are disclosed. Among other examples, various configurations and features enable the management of resources (e.g., controlling and orchestrating hardware, acceleration, network, processing resource usage), security (e.g., secure execution and communication, isolation, conflicts), and service management (e.g., orchestration, connectivity, workload coordination), in edge…
