Lodestar Licensing Group Assigned Patent

Lodestar Licensing Group LLC, Evanston, IL, has been assigned a patent (11842065) developed by Sato, Junichi, Yokohama, Japan, for “controlling firmware storage density based on temperature detection.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data storage device stores data in non-volatile memory. In one approach, a method includes: storing software in a compressed format in a first mode (e.g., an SLC mode) in a non-volatile memory, exposing, while the software is stored in the first mode, the non-volatile memory to a temperature greater than a predetermined threshold, determining that the temperature of the non-volatile memory has fallen below the predetermined threshold, and in response to determining that the temperature of the non-volatile memory has fallen below the predetermined threshold: decompressing the stored software, and storing the decompressed software in a second mode (e.g., TLC mode) in the non-volatile memory. The second mode has a storage density higher than the first mode.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-12-30 (17/566508).