US Patent Issued to Kioxia on May 13 for "Memory system and method for controlling semiconductor memory" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,328, issued on May 13, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and method for controlling semiconductor memory" was invented by Masahiro Saito (Tokyo), Kiwamu Watanabe (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Yuko Noda (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Tsukasa Tokutomi (Kamakura Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshiki Takai (Fujisawa Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller receives first, second, and third data by first, second, and third reads, specifying a first address, and respectively specifying first, second, and third read voltages higher in this order. The controller instructs a memory to execute a fourth read speci...