ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,549, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and control method" was invented by Haruka Mori (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan) and Mitsunori Tadokoro (Fujisawa Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a memory controller and a first number of memory elements connected to the memory controller via one or more channels. The memory controller includes a second number of polling circuits and a first processor. Each polling circuit receives designation of one memory element out of the first number of memory elements and executes a polling operation. The polling operation is an operat...