ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,729, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Storage system" was invented by Tatsuro Hitomi (Hiratsuka Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuhito Yoshimizu (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Arata Inoue (Chigasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Dohmae (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhito Hayasaka (Tokyo) and Tomoya Sanuki (Yokkaichi Mie, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, when a first case-mounted memory device that includes a first memory device is not connected to a slot of a host apparatus and is stored in a second stocker, the host apparatus causes a second transport device to transport the first case-mounte...