US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 21 for "Notifications for avoiding thermal shutdown" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,118, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Notifications for avoiding thermal shutdown" was invented by Nitin Jain (San Jose, Calif.) and Srikanth Peddayyavandla (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to improved wait time notifications from SSDs to host systems. Rather than assuming on when to restart an SSD after an asynchronous event notification (AEN) is sent, issuing a cool-off wait time. When an SSD is overheating, an AEN is sent from the SSD. An AEN may either be a warning event or a critical event. Once the AEN is received, a host m...