ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,005, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Memory system and nonvolatile memory" was invented by Daisuke Arizono (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 that includes memory cells. The nonvolatile memory outputs, to a memory controller, first hard bit data of the first bit, second hard bit data of the second bit, third hard bit data of the third bit, and fourth soft bit data related to the first bit, the second bit, and the third bit, in response to a first command set. The nonvolatile memory outputs, to the memory controll...