US Patent Issued to Waymo on Nov. 11 for "Method of temperature conditioning compute module for cold start" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,360, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method of temperature conditioning compute module for cold start" was invented by Darren Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sabareeshkumar Ravikumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to methods of increasing a temperature of a computer module to start the computer at environmental temperatures below a threshold temperature. An example embodiment includes receiving, at one or more computing components thermally coupled to a main computer via a liquid-cooled plate, a set of program instructions. The method can also include r...