US Patent Issued to NANYA TECHNOLOGY on July 8 for "Memory devices having protection circuit for protecting word line" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,728, issued on July 8, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Memory devices having protection circuit for protecting word line" was invented by Wu-Der Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device and a method for protecting the same are provided. The memory device includes a controller configured to refresh one of a plurality of word lines during a first refresh cycle in response to a refresh signal, a random number generator configured to generate a first number, a counter configured to receive the first number as an initial value of the counter, wherein the counter is configured to be ...