Leaf spring for an integrated circuit heat sink
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12129901
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a leaf spring for coupling a heat sink to an integrated circuit, where the leaf spring includes a central portion that has an aperture, a first spring arm that is formed on a first side of the central portion and includes a first through-hole for a first fastener, and a second spring arm that is formed on a second side of the central portion and includes a second through-hole for a second fastener. In various embodiments, a first…
Context-based state estimation
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12122392
State information can be determined for a subject that is robust to different inputs or conditions. For drowsiness, facial landmarks can be determined from captured image data and used to determine a set of blink parameters. These parameters can be used, such as with a temporal network, to estimate a state (e.g., drowsiness) of the subject. To improve robustness, an eye state determination network can determine eye state from the image data, without reliance on intermediate landmarks,…
Outlet quality factor stabilization for datacenter cooling systems
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12127381
Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, one or more outlet reservoirs are associated with a stabilizing subsystem and a rack so that one or more outlet reservoirs can receive two-phase fluid that is outlet from a plurality of cold plates of a rack and so that a stabilizing subsystem can stabilize a quality factor of a two-phase fluid to a predetermined quality factor before heat is removed from a two-phase fluid and it is cycled to such…
Staged commissioning for datacenter cooling systems
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12127374
Systems and methods for a datacenter cooling system are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, reconfigurable terminations are provided for fluid loops in a datacenter cooling system with individual ones of such reconfigurable terminations are to be configured in a first state to enable non-cooling fluid runs through individual ones of such fluid loops, taken individually and in combination, during commissioning of a datacenter cooling system, and are to be configured in a second state…
Conversational AI-encoded language for data compression
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12126791
Systems and methods of compressing video data are disclosed. The proposed systems provide a computer-implemented process configured to classify a person's behavior(s) during a video and encode the behaviors as a representation of the video. When playback of the video is requested, a reconstruction of the video is generated by a video synthesizer based on a reference image of the person and the sequence of codes corresponding to their behavior during the video. Storage and transmission of…
Real-time persistent object tracking for intelligent video analytics systems
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12125277
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques for real-time persistent object tracking for intelligent video analytics systems. A state of a first object included in an environment may be tracked based on a first set of images depicting the environment. The first set of images may be generated during a first time period. It may be determined that the first object is not detected in the environment depicted in a second set of images. The second set of images may be generated during a second time…
Semiconductor component update device
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12124832
Devices and methods to update semiconductor components are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a device updates semiconductor components independent of a semiconductor component operational state.
Method for efficient grouping of cache requests for datapath scheduling
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12124378
In a ray tracer, a cache for streaming workloads groups ray requests for coherent successive bounding volume hierarchy traversal operations by sending common data down an attached data path to all ray requests in the group at the same time or about the same time. Grouping the requests provides good performance with a smaller number of cache lines.
Leveraging low power states for fault testing of processing cores at runtime
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12124346
In various examples, one or more components or regions of a processing unit—such as a processing core, and/or component thereof—may be tested for faults during deployment in the field. To perform testing while in deployment, the state of a component subject to test may be retrieved and/or stored during the test to maintain state integrity, the component may be clamped to communicatively isolate the component from other components of the processing unit, a test vector may be applied…
Techniques to modify processor performance
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12124308
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to optimize processor performance. In at least one embodiment, a method increases an operation voltage of one or more processors, based at least in part, on one or more error rates of the one or more processors.
Generating computer simulations of manipulations of materials based on machine learning from measured statistics of observed manipulations
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12122053
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to identify at least one physical characteristic of materials from computer simulations of manipulations of materials. In at least one embodiment, physical characteristics are determined by comparing measured statistics of observed manipulations to simulations of manipulations using a simulator trained with a likelihood-free inference engine.
Automatic classification and reporting of inappropriate language in online applications
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12121823
In various examples, game session audio data—e.g., representing speech of users participating in the game—may be monitored and/or analyzed to determine whether inappropriate language is being used. Where inappropriate language is identified, the portions of the audio corresponding to the inappropriate language may be edited or modified such that other users do not hear the inappropriate language. As a result, toxic behavior or language within instances of gameplay may be…
Transferring from a cloud-hosted instance of an application to a local instance
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12121801
In various examples, a user may access or acquire an application to download to the user's local computing device. Upon accessing the application, a local instance of the application may begin downloading to the computing device, and the user may be given the option to play a cloud-hosted instance of the application. If the user selects to play a hosted instance of the application, the cloud-hosted instance of the application may begin streaming while the local instance of the…
Distributed processing of pose graphs for generating high definition maps for navigating autonomous vehicles
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12117298
According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations may comprise obtaining a pose graph that comprises a plurality of nodes. The operations may also comprise dividing the pose graph into a plurality of pose subgraphs, each pose subgraph comprising one or more respective pose subgraph interior nodes and one or more respective pose subgraph boundary nodes. The operations may also comprise generating one or more boundary subgraphs based on the plurality of pose subgraphs, each of the one or…
Preemptive processing of authentication requests for unified access management systems and applications
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12120152
Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques that improve efficiency and decrease latency of processing of authorization requests by a cloud service. The techniques include obtaining, from an access server, a snapshot associated with processing an authorization request to evaluate an access to a resource of the cloud service and generating, using the snapshot, preemptive authorization requests by modifying the authorization request with a new user identity or a new resource…
Processing authentication requests for unified access management systems and applications
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12120122
Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques that improve efficiency and decrease latency of processing of authorization requests by cloud-based access servers that evaluate access rights to access various cloud-based services. The techniques include but are not limited to generating and processing advanced authorization requests that anticipate future authorization requests that may be generated by cloud-based services. The techniques further include processing of frequently…
Hardware-accelerated nearest neighbor queries for arbitrary data primitives
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12118643
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform a K-nearest-neighbor query. In at least one embodiment, a set of bounding boxes corresponding to a set of primitives is generated that allows the query to be solved using light transport simulation acceleration features of a GPU.
Neural network accelerator using logarithmic-based arithmetic
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12118454
Neural networks, in many cases, include convolution layers that are configured to perform many convolution operations that require multiplication and addition operations. Compared with performing multiplication on integer, fixed-point, or floating-point format values, performing multiplication on logarithmic format values is straightforward and energy efficient as the exponents are simply added. However, performing addition on logarithmic format values is more complex. Conventionally,…
Asynchronous data movement pipeline
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12118382
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to parallelize operations in one or more programs with data copies from global memory to shared memory in each of the one or more programs. In at least one embodiment, a program performs operations on shared data and then asynchronously copies shared data to shared memory, and continues performing additional operations in parallel while the shared data is copied to shared memory until an indicator provided by an application programming interface to…
Performing load and permute with a single instruction in a system on a chip
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12118353
In various examples, a VPU and associated components may be optimized to improve VPU performance and throughput. For example, the VPU may include a min/max collector, automatic store predication functionality, a SIMD data path organization that allows for inter-lane sharing, a transposed load/store with stride parameter functionality, a load with permute and zero insertion functionality, hardware, logic, and memory layout functionality to allow for two point and two by two point lookups,…
