ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,040, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Memory system, firmware update method, and program field" was invented by Mariko Matsumoto (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system is connectable to a host. The memory system comprises a semiconductor memory and a memory controller electrically connected to the semiconductor memory. The memory controller, upon receiving a command from the host, the command instructing to update one or more of the plurality of firmwares stored in the first block, change at least one of a plurality of firmwares stored in any one of a plurality of slots of a ...