ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,580, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory controller, memory system, and memory control method" was invented by Riki Suzuki (Yokohama, Japan), Toshikatsu Hida (Yokohama, Japan), Osamu Torii (Setagaya, Japan), Hiroshi Yao (Yokohama, Japan) and Kiyotaka Iwasaki (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile memory includes a plurality of memory areas and controller circuit including an error correction code encoder. The error correction code encoder encodes a first data to generate a first parity in a first operation and encodes a second data to generate a second par...