ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,263, issued on July 8, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Removable memory device" was invented by Atsushi Kondo (Yokohama, Japan), Akihisa Fujimoto (Sagamihara, Japan), Ryo Yonezawa (Shinagawa, Japan) and Masaomi Teranishi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, when a current consumption class supported by a removable memory device is another current consumption class different from a first current consumption class with a largest current consumption value among plural types of current consumption classes, the first current consumption value consumed from a first power by the removable memory...