ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,854, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Apparatus, system, and method for performing self-contained reliability testing on computing devices" was invented by Travis S. Mikjaniec (Freemont, Calif.), Elmer Tolentino (Livermore, Calif.) and Amit Kumar Misra (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed computing device capable of performing self-contained reliability testing may include (1) a cooling device and (2) circuitry communicatively coupled to the cooling device, wherein the circuitry is configured to (A) alternate between periods of high computing activity that increase...