US Patent Issued to Kioxia on July 22 for "Memory system performing multi-step write operation and control method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,974, issued on July 22, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system performing multi-step write operation and control method thereof" was invented by Yuko Noda (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Kiwamu Watanabe (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiro Saito (Tokyo) and Yoshiki Takai (Fujisawa Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a non-volatile memory including a plurality of memory cells; and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a multi-step write operation to write multi-bit data with respect to each of target memory cells through a first programming to set a first threshold voltage ...