ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,389, issued on March 11, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Memory system and method" was invented by Motoki Shimizu (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Kenji Sakurada (Yamato Kanagawa, Japan) and Naoto Kumano (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory cells each configured to store data in a non-volatile manner according to a threshold voltage thereof and connected to a word line, and a controller configured to perform an error correction based on hard bit data and soft bit data read from the plurality of memory cells, generate a first ...