ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,584, issued on March 24, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Solid state storage device and patrol read method using word line groupings thereof" was invented by Bai-Jun Xiao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuan-Chun Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Che Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tsukasa Tokutomi (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun Yuan Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Hung Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu Hsiu Ho (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ching Lun Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state storage device is provided, which includes a controller and a non-volatile memory. The controller selects a first word line group from a plurality of word line groups obt...