ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,899, issued on May 13, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and address verification method" was invented by Akira Matsuo (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller is capable of communicating with a host and controls the nonvolatile memory. The controller determines validity of first information for a logical address, when the controller receives, from the host, a read command including the logical address and the first information, the logical address indicating a logical location on the nonvolatile memor...