US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Aug. 11 for "Memory system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,968, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system" was invented by Takashi Muramoto (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system comprises a nonvolatile memory including a plurality of blocks, and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to track a wear-out degree of each block, and perform a write operation on a certain block in a first write mode of writing a first number of bit per memory cell. The memory controller is configured to, determine, when the wear-out degree of the certain block exceeds a first threshold, whether the nonvolatile memory has a first pr...