ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,099, issued on July 29, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Memory system and memory control method" was invented by Hisashi Fujikawa (Ebina Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system includes an array of memory cells that store two or more bits of data each, and a memory controller to control writing data into the memory cells and reading from the memory cells. When a first command is received from a host, the memory controller reads data designated by the first command from the array and then rewrites the read data back into the array using a writing method in which a lower number...