US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Oct. 20 for "Memory device and memory system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,650, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory device and memory system" was invented by Osamu Nakasone (Zushi Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device according to one embodiment includes a plurality of memory cells, a word line, and a controller. Each of the memory cells is configured to store multiple-bit data according to which of a plurality of states having different threshold voltages each of the memory cells is included in. The word line is connected to the memory cells. The controller is configured to count a number of memory cells having threshold voltages on a higher state side ...