ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,898, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system" was invented by Kohei Okuda (Koganei Tokyo, Japan), Hayato Fujiwara (Yamato Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuya Hosokawa (Minato Tokyo, Japan), Hiroyasu Nakatsuka (Machida Tokyo, Japan) and Ge Wang (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a first controller, a nonvolatile memory connected to the first controller, and a power supply circuit that applies a voltage to the first controller and the nonvolatile memory. The first controller writes first data to a first address in the nonvolatile memory and instructs the power supply ...