ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,100, issued on May 27, was assigned to SK hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).
"Automatic vent for SSD cooling enhancement" was invented by Yanbing Sun (Shanghai), Xiaoguo Liang (Shanghai), Haifeng Gong (Shanghai) and Ming Zhang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are devices and methods relating to temperature control in a solid state drive (SSD). One embodiment include a SSD including a housing including a plurality of sides surrounding an interior region. The SSD includes at least one vent on the housing, the at least one vent configured to be opened and closed in response to a signal. The SSD...