Red Hat Patents a Plugin-Driven Build System for Multiple Runtime Environments
Building software that runs in multiple environments — containers, VMs, serverless, bare metal — usually means maintaining separate toolchains and pipelines. Red…
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IBM Patents a Vertically Stacked P-N Diode Built Into FET Gate Structures
IBM has filed a patent for a P-N diode that lives inside the same physical space as a transistor's source and drain…
IBM Patents an Automatic Load-Balancing System for Distributed Database Leaders
When one server in a distributed database cluster gets hammered with traffic, the whole system can slow to a crawl — IBM's…
IBM Patents a Mixture-of-Experts System for Tracing Text Back to Its Source
IBM is patenting a way to figure out where a piece of text originally came from — using a Mixture of Experts…
IBM Patents a Vector Table System for Smarter Processor Register Access
Accessing registers in a processor sounds like plumbing — until you realize that how efficiently a chip can juggle its internal scratch…
IBM Patents a System That Catches Forgotten Meals and Calculates Insulin Doses
Forgetting to log a meal is one of the most common — and dangerous — mistakes in insulin-dependent diabetes management. IBM's new…
IBM Patents a Faster Way to Push Security Patches Into Containers
Patching containers is a constant headache for cloud teams — every fix risks breaking the immutable image underneath. IBM's new patent tries…
IBM Patents a Context-Expanding System That Makes AI Database Queries Smarter
When you ask an AI a question about a database, it often grabs only the obvious fields — missing crucial related data…
IBM Patents a Snake Robot That Drills Curved Holes With Electrochemistry
Drilling a curved hole through metal sounds like something out of a spy gadget catalog — but IBM has filed a patent…
Red Hat Patents a Self-Updating Background Dataset for AI Explainability
Getting an AI model to explain its own decisions is hard enough — but doing it accurately when your data is constantly…
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