ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,037, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Voltage-triggered performance throttling" was invented by Hui Wang (Shanghai), Minjian Wu (Zhejiang, China) and Hongyan Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include a performance throttling manager for controlling performance levels of a memory subsystem using input voltages. The performance throttling manager monitors input voltages to a memory device to determine a current input voltage value, while the memory device is operating at a first performance level. The performance throttling manager detects t...