US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Aug. 18 for "Memory system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,720, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system" was invented by Yuki Kanbe (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller is communicable with a host and is configured to control the nonvolatile memory. The controller is configured to when receiving a key generation command from the host, generate an encryption key by an encrypting and decrypting function unit, store the encryption key in the nonvolatile memory, and transmit an identifier of the encryption key to the host."

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