US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Nov. 3 for "Memory device and host device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,120, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory device and host device" was invented by Akihisa Fujimoto (Yamoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory having physical storage areas that includes a user area externally accessible and are divided into management units and a control unit. The control unit receives a control command having a first argument to designate a sequential write area and a read command or a write command, assigns a management unit represented by an address of the read command or the write command as the s...