US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 25 for "Processor skin temperature power management based on multiple external sensors" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,390, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Processor skin temperature power management based on multiple external sensors" was invented by Sukesh Shenoy (Austin, Texas), Adam N. C. Clark (Markham, Canada) and Christopher M. Jaggers (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing unit manages temperature by correlating readings from a plurality of external temperature sensors to a skin temperature of the processing unit, wherein the correlation is based on characteristics of a computer chassis that is to include the processing unit. ...