US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Oct. 7 for "Nonvolatile memory, memory system, and control method of nonvolatile memory with command processing unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,878, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Nonvolatile memory, memory system, and control method of nonvolatile memory with command processing unit" was invented by Daisuke Iwai (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Toshio Fujisawa (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan) and Keigo Hara (Kamakura Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile memory includes a memory chip and a command processing unit. The command processing unit stores data read from a first position of the memory chip in a memory when a first command for compaction is received from a controller, transmits validity determination ...