US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Aug. 4 for "Memory system and method for controlling nonvolatile memory" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,649, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and method for controlling nonvolatile memory" was invented by Shinichi Kanno (Tokyo) and Hideki Yoshida (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system determine both of a first block to which data from a host is to be written and a first location of the first block, when receiving a write request to designate a first logical address from the host. The memory system writes the data from the host to the first location of the first block. The memory system notifies the host of the first logical address, a fi...