ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,494, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"On-chip performance throttling" was invented by Panni Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaojia Jia (San Jose, Calif.), Zhixin Cui (San Jose, Calif.) and Swaroop Kaza (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory block with memory cells that are arranged in word lines. Control circuitry in the memory device selects a word line to program; sets a programming pulse voltage to a starting value; and determines an operating temperature and compares the operating temperature to a first threshold temperature. In response to the o...