ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,825, issued on May 13, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Thermal environment evaluation and compensation for computer components" was invented by Qi Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.), David Haley (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chad Plummer (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hans Schulze (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Darryl Moore (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a cooling solution that evaluates the thermal environment of a computer component based on transient thermal responses of the computer component. The transient thermal responses are generated by measuring the temperature rise of the computer compo...