ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,174, issued on May 19, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Memory management unit" was invented by Akira Hayashi (Kariya, Japan) and Takanobu Naruse (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory management unit controls, for each predetermined storage unit, a storage destination of data for which a writing request is made by a host. The memory management unit includes: a storage destination control unit configured to select the storage destination of the data for each storage unit from a main memory having the number of rewritable times less than 1015 and a cache memory able to execute copy back of writing the data ...