ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,612, issued on March 24, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Yasufumi Kajiyama (Kamakura, Japan) and Masaru Koyanagi (Ota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device according to the present disclosure includes a memory cell array (110, 210), an input/output circuit (23) that inputs/outputs a signal from/to the memory cell array, and a temperature acquiring circuit (29) that generates temperature information according to the temperature of the memory cell array, and corrects the characteristics of the input/output circuit based on the temperature information." ...