ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,813, issued on Feb. 4.
"Apparatuses and methods for tracking word line accesses" was invented by Dong Pan (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Counters may be provided for individual word lines of a memory for tracking word line accesses. In some examples, multiple counters may be provided for individual word lines. In some examples, the counters may be included on the word lines. The counters may be incremented responsive to word line accesses in some examples. In some examples, the counters may be incremented responsive for a time period for which a word line is held open. In some examples, the counters may be incremented re...