ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,854, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Memory device and control method for performing row hammer protection" was invented by William Wu Shen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chung Hsun Lee (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device and a control method of the memory device are provided. The control method includes: providing access count values to memory rows of the memory device respectively when the memory row are accessed; performing a refresh operation on the memory rows sequentially and resetting the access count values sequentially in response to a refresh command; recei...