US Patent Issued to Kioxia on June 16 for "Memory system and method of estimating read voltages thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,974, issued on June 16, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and method of estimating read voltages thereof" was invented by Katsuyuki Shimada (Ota Tokyo, Japan), Yuki Komatsu (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuyuki Ushijima (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including a plurality of memory cells, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a read operation to determine a value of multi-bit data stored in each of the memory cells by using a first plurality of read voltages, and perform an estimation of optimum values of the read voltages...