US Patent Issued to Kioxia on March 3 for "Memory system that updates address mapping table based on writing of compressed data" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,696, issued on March 3, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system that updates address mapping table based on writing of compressed data" was invented by Takashi Takemoto (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Kensaku Yamaguchi (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Keiri Nakanishi (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Kohei Oikawa (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan) and Sho Kodama (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller is configured to maintain an address mapping table including first mapping information indicating correspondence between logical addresses and physica...