ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,901, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for stable and elevated idle-mode temperature for assembled semiconductor devices" was invented by Nikos Kaburlasos (Folsom, Calif.), Rodrigo De Oliveira Vivi (Lithia, Fla.), Phani Kumar Kandula (Murugeshpalya, India), Marc Beuchat (Folsom, Calif.), Mark J. Luckeroth (Portland, Ore.), Eric J. M. Moret (Beaverton, Ore.), David N. Lombard (Rossmoor, Calif.), John Kelbert (Aptos, Calif.) and Brad Bittel (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems and methods for stable and elevated idle-mode t...