ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,180, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Yusuke Komano (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array and a control circuit. The memory cell array includes two or more memory cells. The control circuit is configured to control a write operation of writing first data to the two or more memory cells and a read operation of reading the first data from the two or more memory cells. The control circuit sets cell states of the two or more memory cells based on second data include...