ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,106, issued on May 6, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Storage device, storage system, and control method" was invented by Takehiko Amaki (Yokohama, Japan), Shunichi Igahara (Fujisawa, Japan), Toshikatsu Hida (Yokohama, Japan) and Yoshihisa Kojima (Kawasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a storage device comprises a nonvolatile memory, and a controller configured to perform a first data write operation in a first mode, and to perform a second data write operation in a second mode. Data of a first number of bits is written per memory cell in the first mode. Data of a second number of bits is w...