ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,748, issued on July 8, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system with accessible storage region to gateway" was invented by Atsushi Yamazaki (Tokyo), Kentaro Umesawa (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Naoko Yamada (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuta Kageyama (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system comprising a first storage region which stores first firmware corresponding to an external first electronic control apparatus; a second storage region which stores second firmware corresponding to an external gateway and third firmware corresponding to the first electronic control apparatus; and a control...