ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,116, issued on May 20, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system" was invented by Naoki Esaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinichi Kanno (Tokyo).

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 receives a first write request associated with first data from a host. In response to a lapse of first time since the reception of the first write request, the controller starts a write process of second data to the nonvolatile memory. The second data includes at least the first data. The controller transmits a first response to the first write reques...