US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Feb. 10 for "Memory system and method of controlling nonvolatile memory" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,321, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and method of controlling nonvolatile memory" was invented by Suguru Nishikawa (Tokyo), Takehiko Amaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Shunichi Igahara (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshikatsu Hida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshihisa Kojima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a memory controller. The nonvolatile memory includes a first memory cell configured to nonvolatilely store data of a plurality of bits including a first bit and a second bit, and a second memory cell configured to nonvolatile...