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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 20, 2009
Applicants:

Mark D. Tupa, Cypress, TX (US);

Michael R. Durham, Tomball, TX (US);

Christopher Rijken, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Mark D. Tupa, Cypress, TX (US);

Michael R. Durham, Tomball, TX (US);

Christopher Rijken, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/20 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/206 (2013.01); G06F 11/3034 (2013.01); G06F 11/3058 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1275 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computing system can include a monitor () to estimate a temperature of a storage device (). The monitor estimates the temperature from an activity indicating signal of the storage device. A cooling device controller () can be connected to the monitor. The cooling device controller can control the output of a cooling device ().


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