ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,546, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and control method thereof" was invented by Hisaki Niikura (Tokyo), Yasuyuki Ushijima (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan) and Eriko Akaihata (Yashio Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a memory device including a plurality of memory cell transistors, and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to write data to each of the plurality of memory cell transistors, the data having one of a plurality of bit values, read the data from the plurality of memory cell transistors, and measure a number of errors included in the...