US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Oct. 27 for "Memory system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,408, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system" was invented by Yosuke Mitsumasu (Hadano, Japan) and Ryoichi Kato (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including a plurality of blocks, and a controller. The controller manages a plurality of streams and allocates a first erased block for which a data erase operation has been completed among the plurality of blocks as a general-purpose block. In a case where use of a first stream among the plurality of streams is started, if two or more erased blocks for which the data erase operation has been complet...