ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,677, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system" was invented by Kengo Kurose (Tokyo), Masanobu Shirakawa (Chigasaki, Japan) and Marie Takada (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a memory controller obtains first data in a first page using a first voltage, obtains a first shift amount based on a first and second number. The first and second numbers represent numbers of bits each of which has different values in a first and second manner between the first data and first expected data. The controller obtains second data in the second page using a second voltage and a s...