US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Sept. 22 for "Memory system including semiconductor memory and controller" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,087, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system including semiconductor memory and controller" was invented by Hiroshi Sukegawa (Tokyo), Ikuo Magaki (Kawasaki, Japan), Tokumasa Hara (Kawasaki, Japan) and Shirou Fujita (Kamakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller controls a memory including first and second strings. The first and second strings configure first and second string groups, respectively. In each string group, a set of memory cell transistors each from each string configures a unit. The controller is configured to: sequentially write, in the first string group, data in first un...