ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,389, issued on May 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Progressive detection and response to row hammer attack" was invented by Kai Wang (Shanghai) and Minjian Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to progressively generate responses configured to mitigate risk associated with row hammer attacks. Between two successive refreshing of memory cells in a memory device, increasing thresholds are used to detect row hammer attacks. For example, after a first alert of row hammer attacks is generated using a first lower threshold, a first operation associated with the first lower threshold is initiated t...