US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on May 12 for "Memory storage with selected performance mode" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,630, issued on May 12, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory storage with selected performance mode" was invented by Shunichi Igahara (Kamakura, Japan), Toshikatsu Hida (Yokohama, Japan), Riki Suzuki (Yokohama, Japan), Takehiko Amaki (Yokohama, Japan), Suguru Nishikawa (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshihisa Kojima (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller electrically connected to the nonvolatile memory. The controller selects a write mode from a first mode in which data having N bits is written per one memory cell and a second mode in whic...