ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,853, issued on July 8, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system allowing host to easily transmit and receive data" was invented by Kuniaki Ito (Funabashi, Japan), Yasufumi Tsumagari (Kawasaki, Japan), Takashi Wakutsu (Kamakura, Japan) and Shuichi Sakurai (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a non-volatile semiconductor memory device, a control unit, a memory as a work area, a wireless communication module, and an extension register. The control unit controls the non-volatile semiconductor memory device. The extension register is provided in the memory and has a data length by which a wir...