ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,636, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Memory system and method of controlling memory system" was invented by Atsuo Shono (Kamakura Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuhiro Fukutomi (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system includes: a non-volatile memory; and a memory controller configured to allocate a logical address range to a namespace in a first unit and release the logical address range from the namespace in the first unit. The first unit includes one or more second units, and each of the one or more second units includes a plurality of third units. The m...