ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,545, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and power control circuit" was invented by Hajime Matsumoto (Higashimurayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a memory system connectable to a host includes a nonvolatile memory, a controller, and a power control circuit. The controller controls the nonvolatile memory. The power control circuit controls power to be supplied to the controller and the nonvolatile memory and includes one or more DC/DC converters. The nonvolatile memory and the controller include one or more circuit blocks. Each of the one or more DC/DC converte...