US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Dec. 23 for "Memory system with enhanced security access to parital storage areas" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,892, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system with enhanced security access to parital storage areas" was invented by Mari Hikichi (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller enables a first access authority to a first storage area which is at least a partial storage area of the nonvolatile memory and sets a first time limit at which the first access authority becomes disabled. The first access authority is assigned to first user identification information. The controller disables the...