US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 19 for "Row hammer mitigation using hierarchical detectors" (North Carolina, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,468, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Row hammer mitigation using hierarchical detectors" was invented by Edmund J. Gieske (Cedar Park, Texas), Cagdas Dirik (Indianola, Wash.) and Robert M. Walker (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus can include a number of memory devices and a controller coupled to one or more of the number of memory devices. The controller can include row hammer detection circuitry configured to receive signaling indicative of a row activation command having a row address, increment a row counter corresponding to the row address stored in a stored in a...