US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on June 23 for "Superblock size management in non-volatile memory devices" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,932, issued on June 23, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Superblock size management in non-volatile memory devices" was invented by Neil Buxton (Oxfordshire, Great Britain) and Steven Wells (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations described herein relate to systems and methods for managing superblocks, including determining superblocks, including first and second superblocks, in a non-volatile memory storage. The non-volatile memory storage includes independent locations that may be planes or dies. The first superblock includes first blocks corresponding to first independent locations, and the se...