US Patent Issued to Kioxia on June 2 for "Memory system and non-volatile memory with compressed soft bit data for error correction" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,541, issued on June 2, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and non-volatile memory with compressed soft bit data for error correction" was invented by Keisuke Azuma (Tokyo), Mitsuaki Honma (Fujisawa, Japan) and Daisuke Arizono (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile memory including a plurality of memory cells each capable of storing at least a first bit, a second bit, and a third bit, and a memory controller configured to control the non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory is configured to output first hard bit data of the first bit, sec...