US Patent Issued to Kioxia on March 18 for "Memory system and control method involving multiple block sets" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,198, issued on March 18, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and control method involving multiple block sets" was invented by Tetsuya Yasuda (Kamakura Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile memory including a plurality of physical blocks and a controller. The controller is configured to allocate the plurality of physical blocks to a plurality of first block sets each including physical blocks among the plurality of physical blocks, generate a plurality of groups obtained by grouping the plurality of first block sets by the number of defect...