ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,718, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Memory system" was invented by Koichi Nagai (Ota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a controller of a memory system manages a current extended pointer that includes a pointer and cycle counter. The controller identifies, for each time the first time elapses, a first time range whose an end time matches a time that is prior to a specific time from a current time. The controller acquires a first extended pointer stored in a first entry among the plurality of entries that corresponds to the first time range. The controller identifies one or more...