ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,319, issued on April 14, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system executing flush command method of controlling nonvolatile memory upon receiving flush command" was invented by Suguru Nishikawa (Tokyo), Takehiko Amaki (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Shunichi Igahara (Fujisawa Kanagawa, Japan), Toshikatsu Hida (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshihisa Kojima (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including memory cells and a memory controller coupled to the nonvolatile memory. Each of the plurality of memory cells is configured to store...