ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,196, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device and memory system" was invented by Goichi Ootomo (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a first chip, a second chip, and a third chip. The third chip is connected to the first chip via a first channel and connected to the second chip via a second channel. Upon receiving a first command sequence for data transfer from a first device, the third chip transfers a second command sequence for the data transfer to the first chip via the first channel and transfers a t...