ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,850, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Systems and methods for adaptively detecting and mitigating RowHammer attacks against computer memories" was invented by Asim Abbas Zaidi (San Jose, Calif.), James Andrew Welker (San Jose, Calif.) and Mazyar Razzaz (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for adaptively detecting and mitigating RowHammer attacks or events against computer memories have been described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, a system may include a memory controller, and a RowHammer detection circuit coupled to the memory controller, where the RowHam...