US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Nov. 18 for "Memory system and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,836, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and method" was invented by Aurelien Nam Phong Tran (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinji Yonezawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a memory controller. The nonvolatile memory includes storage areas. The memory controller counts a first number that is the number of uncompleted requests generated in a first time section for read operations to be executed on a first storage area. In a second time section subsequent to the first time section, the m...