ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,980, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to InnoGrit Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).
"System and method for managing solid state storage devices in low temperature environment" was invented by Lin Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Gang Zhao (Chandler, Ariz.), Wei Jiang (Fremont, Calif.) and Zining Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for low temperature management of a storage system. An apparatus may include a temperature sensor to generate a temperature reading, a timer configured with a time interval, a backup battery, one or more non-volatile memory (NVM) devices and a storage con...