ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,039, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Computing system and method for controlling storage device" was invented by Shinichi Kanno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a computing system transmits to a storage device a write request designating a first logical address for identifying first data to be written and a length of the first data. The computing system receives from the storage device the first logical address and a first physical address indicative of both of a first block selected from blocks except a defective block by the storage device, and a first physical storage loc...