ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,868, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and control method" was invented by Yuki Sasaki (Kamakura Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinichi Kanno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a volatile memory, a nonvolatile memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to set a block group of the nonvolatile memory to be in a writable state and generate in the volatile memory a list associated with the block group. The controller is configured to, with respect to a write command, add an entry to the list, which includes a first address of a host and a second address of the volatile ...