ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,796, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Memory devices having a random number generator for protecting memory cells, and methods for protecting memory devices" 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 word lines during a first refresh cycle in response to a refresh signal, a number trimmer configured to generate a modified first number according to a first number generated by a random number generator, wherein the modified...