ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,786, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).
"Thermal diode sensor self-correction" was invented by Luzhong Yin (Andover, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Temperature of a processor is monitored and managed by a control circuit. A thermal diode is positioned to indicate the temperature of the processor. A controller measures a voltage across the thermal diode and calculates a temperature of the thermal diode as a function of the voltage and a correction factor. The correction factor is a constant value that is determined based on 1) a negative correlation between the voltage and a reference temperatur...