ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,251, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device and method of controlling the same" was invented by Shinichi Kanno (Tokyo) and Hironori Uchikawa (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of detecting code generators configured to generate a plurality of detecting codes to detect errors in a plurality of data items, respectively, a plurality of first correcting code generators configured to generate a plurality of first correcting codes to correct errors in a plurality of first data blocks, respectively, each of the first data...