ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,773, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Memory system" was invented by Kensaku Yamaguchi (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Kiyotaka Iwasaki (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Takemoto (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan) and Kohei Oikawa (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a write operation of a first data cluster and a first partial overwrite operation of the first data cluster with first overwrite data. The write operation includes compressing and then encrypting the first data cluster, and writing the...