ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,910, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Thermal recovery in multi-protocol devices" was invented by Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India), Vinod Sasidharan (Bangalore, India) and Vimal Jain (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-protocol storage device avoids entering a thermal shutdown mode by switching between protocols. The storage device communicates with a host in a first mode using a first protocol. The storage device receives a temperature request from the host, monitors its temperature, and transmits a response to the host when the temperature of the storage d...