US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Sept. 16 for "Nonvolatile memory including intermediate buffer and input/output buffer and memory system including the nonvolatile memory" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,025, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Nonvolatile memory including intermediate buffer and input/output buffer and memory system including the nonvolatile memory" was invented by Yoshihisa Kojima (Kawasaki, Japan), Masanobu Shirakawa (Chigasaki, Japan) and Kiyotaka Iwasaki (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, there is provided a nonvolatile memory including a memory cell array, an input/output buffer, one or more intermediate buffers, and a control circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of pages. Each of the one or more intermediate buffers is electricall...