US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 9 for "Dynamic rowhammer management with per-row hammer tracking" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,247, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Dynamic rowhammer management with per-row hammer tracking" was invented by Victor Van Der Veen (Leusden, Netherlands) and David Hartley (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing row hammering in a DRAM device may include maintaining per-row activation command counts. A next aggressor row may be determined based on the counts. A victim queue may be maintained. A refresh operation may be directed to a row indicated by the victim queue when conditions include that the victim queue is not empty when the refresh command is received. The current aggressor row may be up...