ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,857, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Memory system" was invented by Akifumi Fukuda (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan) and Kenta Yasufuku (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a controller including a memory having a lower access latency than the non-volatile memory. The controller is configured to track addresses of data stored in the non-volatile memory that were subject to prior wear leveling processes, in a buffer configured in the memory of the controller, perform a current wear leveling process on data stored in the non-volatile memory, and d...