ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,621, issued on April 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Storage device self-heating system" was invented by Jeffrey James DeMoss (Austin, Texas), Ricardo V. Dominguez (Georgetown, Texas) and Anthony Gerard Ginty (Cork, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device self-heating system includes a storage device having a processing system, a storage subsystem, and at least one heat transfer subsystem coupled between the processing system and the storage subsystem. The storage device determines that a temperature of the storage subsystem is below a temperature threshold and, in response, uses the processi...