US Patent Issued to Kioxia on July 7 for "Memory system capable of patrol read" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,222, issued on July 7, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system capable of patrol read" was invented by Dongxiao Yu (Adachi Tokyo, Japan), Masahiro Kiyooka (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Suguru Nishikawa (Kita Tokyo, Japan) and Yoshihisa Kojima (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a semiconductor memory that includes a cell unit having a plurality of memory cells, and a control circuit for controlling the plurality of memory cells, and a memory controller configured to control the semiconductor memory. The control circuit is configured to execute a data read operation on the cell u...