US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Sept. 15 for "Memory system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,287, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system" was invented by Mel Stychen Sanchez Tan (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system that can effectively use resources includes a nonvolatile memory that includes a plurality of physical blocks and a controller. The controller manages a plurality of superblocks that each include one or more physical blocks among the plurality of physical blocks, and notifies a host of a maximum size among data sizes writable in each of the superblocks, as a first size that is a size of a reclaim unit. Upon receipt of one or more write commands...