US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Dec. 16 for "Memory system limiting range of scan in garbage collection" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,041, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system limiting range of scan in garbage collection" was invented by Hirotsugu Kajihara (Yokohama, Japan), Yu Nakanishi (Yokohama, Japan), Kohei Oikawa (Kawasaki, Japan) and Kazuhiro Hiwada (Kamakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system includes: a nonvolatile memory including blocks each of which includes physical memory areas; and a memory controller dividing a logical address space into a plurality of banks and associating a block with each of the plurality of banks. The memory controller is configured to: selectivel...