US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 14 for "Perfect row hammer tracking with multiple count increments" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,367, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Perfect row hammer tracking with multiple count increments" was invented by Bill Nale (Livermore, Calif.) and Kuljit S. Bains (Olympia, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device can internally track row address activates for perfect row hammer tracking, incrementing an activate count for each row when an access command is received for a row. Instead of incrementing the count for each activate, the memory controller can indicate a number greater than one for the memory device to increment the count, and then indicate not to increment the count for s...