ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,357, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).
"Memory system and method" was invented by Yuji Takahashi (Tokyo) and Hirokazu Hanaki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system (100) includes a memory (2) including a plurality of pages (21) on each of which data can be arranged and a defragmenting device (4) that rearranges the data arranged on the plurality of pages (21). The memory (2) includes a plurality of tiles (22) each including one or more pages. Each of the plurality of tiles (22) is configured to be capable of transitioning among a plurality of states in which power consumption suppre...