ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,096, issued on June 24, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Memory system" was invented by Tomoyuki Kantani (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a controller identifies a fourth storage location on which a second step program operation is executed last among storage locations of a block and determines whether a condition that a fifth storage location stores unreadable data and each of memory cells of a sixth storage location has a threshold voltage corresponding to an erased state, is satisfied. Among the storage locations, in response to completion of a first step program operation on the f...