ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,475, issued on April 7, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system, control method thereof, and program" was invented by Yoshihisa Kojima (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory configured to execute one of a plurality of read operations, including a first read operation and a second read operation, and a memory controller configured to issue a read command to the nonvolatile memory to cause the nonvolatile memory to execute one of the plurality of read operations. The memory controller is configured to receive a read request, estimate a reliability level of a r...