ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,136, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and data rearrangement method" was invented by Masato Inoue (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a controller includes a counter counting a number of accesses of data in a nonvolatile memory, in a first unit which is a unit of access to data from the host. The controller determines whether a received read command is a sequential read command or a random read command, increments a value of the counter, which corresponds to data specified by the received read command, when the received read command is the random read com...