ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,969, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and method for controlling nonvolatile memory" was invented by Shinichi Kanno (Tokyo) and Hideki Yoshida (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system receives, from a host, a write request including a first identifier associated with one write destination block and storage location information indicating a location in a write buffer on a memory of the host in which first data to be written is stored. When the first data is to be written to a nonvolatile memory, the memory system obtains the first data ...