ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,004, issued on May 26, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system" was invented by Hisashi Fujikawa (Ebina, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory chip, a buffer, and a controller. The nonvolatile memory chip includes a memory cell array. The buffer is capable of storing data received in accordance with receiving a write request from a host. In a case where a piece of data of a first size is written in a write operation for the nonvolatile memory chip, the controller performs a data transfer operation of transferring a piece of data of a second size sma...