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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,031, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system" was invented by Naoto Kumano (Yokohama, Japan) and Kenji Sakurada (Yamato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a semiconductor memory including a plurality of first memory cells each configured to store data in a non-volatile manner according to a threshold voltage, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a first error correction process for the plurality of first memory cells, based on first hard bit data and first soft bit data acquired using a plurality of first soft bit voltages that have been calculated based...