ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,839, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system" was invented by Tsukasa Tokutomi (Kamakura, Japan), Masanobu Shirakawa (Chigasaki, Japan), Kengo Kurose (Tokyo), Marie Takada (Yokohama, Japan), Ryo Yamaki (Yokohama, Japan), Kiyotaka Iwasaki (Yokohama, 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 memory controller. The memory controller is configured: to store, in a buffer, a data set read from a cell unit, and an expected data set generated by an error correction on the data set; to count a number...