Patents Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation
  • Patent number: 11960970
    Abstract: Systems and techniques that facilitate strategic pausing for quantum state leakage mitigation are provided. In various embodiments, a system can comprise a detection component that can detect a quantum state leakage associated with one or more qubits. In various aspects, the system can further comprise a pause component that can, in response to detecting the quantum state leakage, generate a time pause prior to execution of a quantum circuit on the one or more qubits. In various embodiments, the pause component can generate the time pause after execution of a previous quantum circuit on the one or more qubits, where the quantum state leakage arises during the execution of the previous quantum circuit. In some cases, the quantum state leakage can decay during the time pause.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Oliver Dial, Antonio Corcoles-Gonzalez, Maika Takita, David C. Mckay
  • Patent number: 11960850
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for multilingual simultaneous interpretation using a distributed ledger are disclosed. A multilingual interpretation server determines that a new word has been added to a first language node, the first language node corresponding to a first language, and broadcasts, to a plurality of other language nodes, a request to interpret the new word, wherein each of the plurality of other language nodes corresponds to a different language. Each of the plurality of language nodes interprets the new word into a particular language and adds the new word and one or more interpretations of the new word to an entry in a dictionary ledger. A multilingual interpretation service provides simultaneous multilingual translations of from a source language to a plurality of target languages using the shared distributed dictionary ledger. A multilingual interpretation client is provided for accessing services provided by the multilingual interpretation service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Howard N. Anglin, Su Liu, Fehmina Merchant, Debbie Anglin
  • Patent number: 11961402
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for using mobile devices for anomaly detection in a vehicle. The present invention may include a computer receives sensor data from at least one mobile device associated with the vehicle, where the mobile device having one or more sensors. The computer analyzes data from the one or more sensors to identify an anomaly associated with the vehicle. The computer identifies a message associated with the anomaly. The computer determines an urgency value of the message based on the anomaly. The computer transfers the message with the urgency value to the vehicle and causes the vehicle to notify the message using a vehicle notification device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pradeep Venkata Sudindra Pusuluri, Sri Harsha Varada, Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Nagaraju Ampavalli
  • Patent number: 11963456
    Abstract: Embodiments of present invention provide a method of improving yield of making MRAM arrays. More specifically, the method includes receiving an MRAM array; identifying a weak MRAM cell from the MRAM array wherein the weak MRAM cell includes an access transistor; and modifying the access transistor. In one embodiment, modifying the access transistor includes performing a hot carrier injection into a gate dielectric layer of the access transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dimitri Houssameddine, Kangguo Cheng, Julien Frougier, Ruilong Xie
  • Patent number: 11961835
    Abstract: A circuit for monitoring usage of an active field effect transistor (FET) includes the active FET and a reference FET, formed in a same structure as the active FET. The active FET and the reference FET both are pFET or both are nFET, and are stacked on each other at a common gate. The circuit also includes a differential current sense circuit (DCSC) and a plurality of switches for connecting terminals of the FETs to logic voltage, ground voltage, and/or the DCSC. The DCSC is configured to measure and compare currents through each of the active and reference FETs when a threshold voltage is applied to the common gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Effendi Leobandung
  • Patent number: 11961895
    Abstract: A first semiconductor device includes an interfacial layer over a substrate, a first high-? dielectric layer over the interfacial layer, a second high-? dielectric layer over the first high-? dielectric layer, a Ti—Si mixing layer over the second high-? dielectric layer, and a gate electrode layer over the Ti—Si mixing layer. A second semiconductor device includes an interfacial layer over a substrate, a first high-? dielectric layer over the interfacial layer, a Ti—Si mixing layer over the first high-? dielectric layer, a second high-? dielectric layer over the Ti—Si mixing layer, and a gate electrode layer over the second high-? dielectric layer. The method includes forming an interfacial layer over a substrate, forming a first high-? dielectric layer over the interfacial layer, forming a second high-? dielectric layer over the first high-? dielectric layer, and forming a gate electrode layer over the second high-? dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ruqiang Bao, Ravikumar Ramachandran, Barry Linder, Shahab Siddiqui, Elnatan Mataev
  • Patent number: 11961958
    Abstract: A composition includes an electrode made of Lithium Manganese Oxyfluoride (LMOF). A single layer separator adheres to a surface of the electrode, is a dielectric that is conductive for Lithium ions but not electrons, and has top and bottom sides. A solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) saturates the electrode so that the LMOF is between 55 percent and 85 percent by mass of a composition of the LMOF electrode and the SPE is between 7.5 percent and 20 percent by mass of the composition of the LMOF electrode. The SPE saturates the separator so that the SPE resides both on the separator top and bottom sides so that the SPE residing on the separator top side contacts the surface. The LMOF exhibits X-Ray Diffraction spectrum peaks between twenty-two and twenty-four 2-theta degrees, between forty-eight and fifty 2-theta degrees, between fifty-four and fifty-six 2-theta degrees, and between fifty-six and fifty-eight 2-theta degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Collins, Bucknell C. Webb, Paul S. Andry, Teodor Krassimirov Todorov, Devendra K. Sadana
  • Patent number: 11960845
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to decoding communications with token sky maps. At least one electronic communication including emoticons having a non-original meaning is received. A candidate meaning is determined for the emoticons having the non-original meaning in the at least one electronic communication based at least in part on token neighborhood distribution structures. The candidate meaning for the emoticons having the non-original meaning is caused to be displayed on at least one device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ziqiumin Wang, Qing Lu, Wei Jun Zheng, Xiao Feng Ji, Yuan Jin
  • Patent number: 11963307
    Abstract: A ball-grid-array component of a ball-grid array assembly is analyzed prior to reflow. A predicted warping pattern of the ball-grid-array component that is likely to occur during reflow is predicted based on the analyzing. A solder ball ball-grid-array defect that could be caused by the predicted warping pattern is predicted. An initial via suction pattern to mitigate the ball-grid-array defect is assigned. A vacuum head is applied to a via in the ball-grid-array assembly. The solder ball is located at the opposite end of the via from the vacuum head. Suction is applied to the via based on the via suction pattern. The suction draws a portion of the solder ball into the via during reflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Doyle, Thomas W. Liang, Layne A. Berge, John R. Dangler, Jason J. Bjorgaard, Kyle Schoneck, Matthew A. Walther
  • Patent number: 11963469
    Abstract: A phase change memory (PCM) cell comprising a substrate a first electrode located on the substrate. A phase change material layer located adjacent to the first electrode, wherein a first side of the phase change material layer is in direct contact with the first electrode. A second electrode located adjacent to phase change material layer, wherein the second electrode is in direct contact with a second side of the phase change material layer, wherein the first side and the second side are different sides of the phase change material layer. An airgap is located directly above the phase change material layer, wherein the airgap provides space for the phase change material to expand or restrict.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kangguo Cheng, Ruilong Xie, Carl Radens, Juntao Li
  • Patent number: 11960507
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for identifying ancestor objects in hierarchical data configured for processing with a query, the query having an associated abstract syntax tree. The abstract syntax tree may be processed so as to generate an augmented abstract syntax tree which includes parent identifiers configured to identify the parent nodes of the query. In this way, a need to pre-parse the data may be alleviated. Instead, the identification of a parent node of a query may be encoded into the abstract syntax tree of the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew John Coleman, John Anthony Reeve, Trevor Clifford Dolby
  • Patent number: 11960599
    Abstract: A computer-based system and method for classifying users of a database including obtaining an activity rate time series describing activity level of a database user versus time, extracting features from the activity rate time series, the features including a measure of repetition in the activity level, mean activity load and a percentage of the time in which the user is active, and determining a type of the database user based on the extracted at least one feature. The measure of repetition in the user activity is calculated by performing a Fourier transform on the activity rate time series to produce a transformed series; detecting spikes in the transformed series; and measuring a percentage of information in the transformed series which is included in the spikes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ofer Haim Biller, Oded Sofer
  • Patent number: 11960544
    Abstract: A computer implemented method processes a query. A number of processor units processes the query to identify a result set in response to receiving the query from a first client. The number of processor units stores, the result set in a shared cache assigned to a group of clients, wherein result set stored in the shared cache is accessible by the group of clients. The number of processor units returns the result set to a second client in the group of clients from the shared cache in response to receiving the query from the second client in the group of clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng Yan Sun, Shuo Li, Xiaobo Wang, Hong Mei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11960546
    Abstract: A processor may analyze one or more unread messages. The one or more unread messages may be from one or more respective conversations. The processor may generate, from the analyzing, an ambiguous strings model. The processor may summarize, via utilization of the ambiguous strings model, the one or more unread messages. The processor may genericize the ambiguous strings model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adam John Gibbons, Seumas McLean Goddard, Shivani Joshi, James Kirk, Daphne Coates
  • Patent number: 11960578
    Abstract: A method is provided for determining command-to-process correspondence. The method includes identifying, by the hardware processor, initial processes resulting from executions of container immutability change events for each of multiple initially mutable containers in a cluster, based on an execution time, a process identifier and a process group identifier for each of the container immutability change events. The method also includes designating, by the hardware processor, a particular external command, from among external container commands stored in a database, as having a correspondence to an initial process, responsive to the initial process matching at least one respective process resulting from executing the particular external command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokuni Kitahara, Yuji Watanabe, Fumiko Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11960797
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for managing retractable privacy partitions to dynamically subdivide spaces in buildings into sub-spaces (or rooms). Retractable privacy partitions are distributed throughout a given space in a building such that the retractable privacy partitions can completely retract into a surface of the given space (for example, the floor or ceiling) such that when they are fully extended, the retractable privacy partitions create separate rooms within the given space, and when fully retracted, the retractable privacy partitions do not significantly impede movement or sightlines throughout the given space. Further disclosed are techniques to manage the retractable privacy partitions based on properties indicative of demand for rooms of various sizes within the given space. Some embodiments further disclose retractable privacy partitions including switchable glass to provide additional flexibility through dynamic opacity along with dynamic extension/retraction of the partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xinlin Wang, Lisa Seacat DeLuca
  • Patent number: 11960269
    Abstract: An opt-in from at least one user of a plurality of users associated with at least one tool of a plurality of tools is received. An authentication associated with a first opted-in user of the plurality of users associated with an access of a first tool of the plurality of tools is determined. A set of credentials required to operate the first tool associated with the first opted-in user is verified. A request to an Internet of things (IoT) receiver device is transmitted. A response from an IoT transmitter device is received. In response to determining that the first user is utilizing required equipment to operate the first tool, power to the first tool is supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Prashant Jain, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Ai Kiar Ang, Rambabu Parvatina, Gary Kim Chwee Lim
  • Patent number: 11960971
    Abstract: A method of mitigating quantum readout errors by stochastic matrix inversion includes performing a plurality of quantum measurements on a plurality of qubits having predetermined plurality of states to obtain a plurality of measurement outputs; selecting a model for a matrix linking the predetermined plurality of states to the plurality of measurement outputs, the model having a plurality of model parameters, wherein a number of the plurality of model parameters grows less than exponentially with a number of the plurality of qubits; training the model parameters to minimize a loss function that compares predictions of the model with the matrix; computing an inverse of the model based on the trained model parameters; and providing the computed inverse of the model to a noise prone quantum readout of the plurality of qubits to obtain a substantially noise free quantum readout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sergey Bravyi, Jay M. Gambetta, David C. Mckay, Sarah E. Sheldon
  • Patent number: 11961015
    Abstract: A provenance method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for a plurality of eidetic systems having logs, include crawling the logs of each node of a plurality of nodes of the eidetic systems to cluster segments across the logs of temporally correlated events into clustered segments and analyzing the correlated segments to interleave an order of processes in the logs and assign a probability to the order of the processes occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bong Jun Ko, Christian Makaya, Jorge J. Ortiz, Swati Rallapalli, Dinesh C. Verma, Xiping Wang
  • Patent number: 11960917
    Abstract: For a first server virtual machine (VM) virtualizing a logical volume in a read/write mode for a client VM, a second server VM virtualizing the logical volume in an off mode is instantiated. The logical volume comprises a virtualization of a portion of physical storage. At the first server VM, the logical volume is deactivated, the deactivating disallowing the first server VM from performing a storage request from the client VM. At the second server VM, the logical volume is activated, the activating performed by causing the second VM to virtualize the logical volume in the read/write mode, the activating allowing the second server VM to perform the storage request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lakshmi Yadlapati, Veena Ganti, Rui Yang