US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Oct. 14 for "Memory system and method of controlling memory chips" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,372, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and method of controlling memory chips" was invented by Konosuke Watanabe (Kawasaki, Japan), Shinji Yonezawa (Machida, Japan), Eiji Sukigara (Kawaguchi, Japan), Mitsusato Hara (Sagamihara, Japan), Haruka Mori (Kawasaki, Japan) and Hajime Yamazaki (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a plurality of nonvolatile memory chips and a controller. The controller manages whether each of the nonvolatile memory chips is in a busy state or not. When one or more requests issued by a host are stored in at le...