US Patent Issued to Kioxia on July 14 for "Memory system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,801, issued on July 14, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system" was invented by Yuko Noda (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Kiwamu Watanabe (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiro Saito (Tokyo) and Yoshiki Takai (Fujisawa Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including a memory cell, and a controller. The controller is configured to write multi-bit data into the memory cell through a first write operation of writing a first part, and not a second part, of the multi-bit data and then a second write operation of writing the first and second parts. The controller is configured ...