US Patent Issued to Kioxia on March 17 for "Semiconductor storage device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,902, issued on March 17, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor storage device" was invented by Yoshikazu Harada (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan) and Akio Sugahara (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor storage device includes a memory string, a sense amplifier including first and second latch circuits, a cache memory including a third latch circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to perform a first read operation in response to a first command set and consecutively perform a second read operation in response to a second command set received during the first read op...