ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,629, issued on June 3, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Memory system and control method" was invented by Koichi Nagai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile memory with a plurality of blocks. The minimum unit of a data erasing operation in the memory system is a block. A controller is electrically connected to the non-volatile memory and configured to execute, in response to a first command from a host requesting a secure erase of secure erase target data stored in a first logical area identified by a first logical area identifier, a copy operation copying vali...