ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,690, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Memory system with dummy read before patrol read" was invented by Kazukuni Kitagaki (Sagamihara Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit, also referred to as a bridge chip or circuit, has a first interface circuit configured to be connected to a control device and a second interface circuit configured to be connected to a memory chip. A controller in the integrated circuit is configured to transfer a first command sequence for commanding a dummy read operation on a storage region of the memory chip via th...