ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,507, issued on July 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for memory chip row hammer threat backpressure signal and host side response" was invented by Kuljit S. Bains (Olympia, Wash.), Bill Nale (Livermore, Calif.), Jongwon Lee (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Sreenivas Mandava (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory chip includes row hammer threat detection circuitry. The memory chip includes an output. The memory chip includes backpressure signal generation circuitry coupled between the row hammer detection circuitry and the output. The backpressure signal generation circuitry is to gen...