US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Aug. 26 for "Method and apparatus of performing graceful thermal shutdown in solid state drives" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,628, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus of performing graceful thermal shutdown in solid state drives" was invented by Wenwei Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and control for thermal shutdown of a storage device. The method and control determine that a temperature of the storage device is approaching a critical temperature; disable input power to the storage device upon determining that the temperature is approaching the critical temperature; when the input power to the storage device is disabled, power the storage device with auxil...