US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Feb. 17 for "Memory system and method of controlling nonvolatile memory and for reducing a buffer size" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,440, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and method of controlling nonvolatile memory and for reducing a buffer size" was invented by Shinichi Kanno (Ota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system determines, for each of groups corresponding to streams, whether or not a length of write data associated with a set of write commands belonging to a same group reaches a minimum write size of a nonvolatile memory. When a length of write data associated with a set of write commands belonging to a first group corresponding to a first stream reaches the minimum write ...