ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,638, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory system and method of controlling nonvolatile memory" was invented by Shinichi Kanno (Ota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, when a command executed in a nonvolatile memory is an erase/program command when a cumulative weight value satisfies a condition that a first input is selected as an input of high priority, a memory system suspends execution of the erase/program command by transmitting a suspend command to the nonvolatile memory. The memory system repeats executing an operation of starting the execution of one read command of t...