ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,882, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Reclaim package cache for thermal throttling" was invented by Udita Dua (Bangalore, India) and Kalpit Bordia (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device is communicatively coupled to a host that stores data on a primary memory package on the storage device. A controller on the storage device may monitor the temperature of components on the storage device and determine when the temperature exceeds a thermal temperature limit. When the temperature exceeds a thermal temperature limit, the controller may suspend certain operations...