US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Aug. 19 for "Memory system and non-volatile memory using soft bit data information to improve memory operation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,455, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and non-volatile memory using soft bit data information to improve memory operation" was invented by Keisuke Azuma (Tokyo), Mitsuaki Honma (Fujisawa, Japan) and Daisuke Arizono (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a memory system comprising: a non-volatile memory including a plurality of memory cells each capable of storing at least a first bit and a second bit, and configured to calculate third soft bit data based on a logical sum calculation using at least first soft bit data corresponding to the first bit and second ...