ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,345, issued on March 11, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Solid-state device with multi-tier extreme thermal throttling" was invented by Dmitry Vaysman (San Jose, Calif.), Sartaj Ajrawat (Fremont, Calif.), Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel) and Julian Vlaiko (Kfar Saba, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of a storage device are provided that apply advanced thermal throttling with multi-tier extreme thermal throttling. Initially, a controller determines whether a first temperature measurement indicates that a temperature of the memory meets a first thermal threshold associated with a first-tier...