ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,690, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Memory device and protection method thereof" was invented by Kuo-Chiang Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device is disclosed. The memory device includes a memory array, a protection circuit, and a control circuit. The memory array includes several memory rows. The protection circuit is configured to determine a first row of the several memory rows to be a victim row. The control circuit is coupled to the memory array and the protection circuit, and the control circuit is configured to back up a data stored in the first row...