US Patent Issued to Kioxia on March 24 for "Power-loss protection for address conversion table using a charged capacitor in a storage device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,582, issued on March 24, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power-loss protection for address conversion table using a charged capacitor in a storage device" was invented by Koji Ueda (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a non-volatile memory, a controller that controls the non-volatile memory, a volatile memory, a power supply circuit that generates a power supply voltage using power supplied from an external power supply, and a capacitor. The controller determines after first data residing in the volatile memory has been stored into the non-volatile memory using the capacitor as a ...