US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 4 for "Row hammer mitigation using a victim cache" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,388, issued on March 4, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Row hammer mitigation using a victim cache" was invented by Ameen D. Akel (Rancho Cordova, Calif.) and Shivam Swami (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Row hammer attacks takes advantage of unintended and undesirable side effects of memory devices in which memory cells interact electrically between themselves by leaking their charges and possibly changing the contents of nearby memory rows that were not addressed in an original memory access. Row hammer attacks are mitigated by using a victim cache. Data is written to cache lines of a cache. A le...