ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,235, issued on July 7, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"System and method of writing to nonvolatile memory using write buffers" was invented by Shinichi Kanno (Ota, Japan), Hideki Yoshida (Yokohama, Japan) and Naoki Esaka (Kawasaki, 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 first write request including a first block identifier designating a first write destination block to which first write data is to be written. The memory system acquires the first write data from a write buffer temporarily holding write data corresponding to each of the write requests, and writes ...