US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Aug. 4 for "Memory system and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,530, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and control method" was invented by Shinichi Kanno (Ota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system is connectable to a host. The memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The nonvolatile memory includes a plurality of blocks. The controller is electrically coupled to the nonvolatile memory. The controller controls the nonvolatile memory. When receiving, from the host, a first command for changing a state of an allocated block to a reallocatable state in a case where a second command that is yet to be ...