ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,423, issued on April 1, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Semiconductor memory device and memory system" was invented by Akio Sugahara (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes a first storage circuit. The first storage circuit is configured to store a first unique number uniquely assigned, and a first chip address having a bit number smaller than that of the first unique number and used to identify the semiconductor memory device from other semiconductor memory devices."
The patent was filed on May 20, 2022, under Application No. 17/749,364.
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