ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,680, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device and control method of semiconductor memory device" was invented by Yoshihiko Shindo (Fujisawa Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device having first and second physical planes each including a plurality of physical blocks of memory cells, includes a first register in which a first address is to be stored, a second register in which a second address associated with the first address is to be stored, a third register in which third addresses are to be stored, and an address registration unit including a first ci...