ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,979, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system" was invented by Takeshi Miura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including first and second planes each including a plurality of memory cells, and a memory controller configured to transmit commands to the first and second planes via a first signal line and receive data from the first and second planes via a second signal line. The memory controller is configured such that, when the first plane is executing a first process, the memory controller suspends transmission of a first command instructing r...