US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on April 22 for "Memory system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,330, issued on April 22, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system" was invented by Tsukasa Tokutomi (Kamakura Kanagawa, Japan), Masanobu Shirakawa (Chigasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Kiwamu Watanabe (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan) and Kengo Kurose (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system according to an embodiment includes a semiconductor memory, and a memory controller. The semiconductor memory comprises memory cells and word lines. Each of the word lines is connected to the memory cells. The memory controller executes a patrol operation including a read operation of the semiconductor memory. The word lines are classifie...