ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,944, issued on July 28, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device and memory system" was invented by Junji Yamada (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array configured to store data, and a control circuit configured to control a write operation of writing data into the memory cell array. In the write operation, the control circuit is configured to receive first data and second data including a parity bit, generate a parity bit for the first data, check whether the parity bit and the parity bit match with each other, and write the first d...