ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,723, issued on March 4, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system with selective access to first and second memories" was invented by Yasushi Nagadomi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory having a plurality of nonvolatile memory chips incorporated therein, a control circuit that controls the nonvolatile memory, an MPU that controls the control circuit, and an interface circuit that communicates with a host, all of which are mounted on a board of the memory system, and the memory system further includes a bus switch that switches connection of a signal line between th...