US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on July 14 for "Processor support for software-level containment of row hammer attacks" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,050, issued on July 14, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Processor support for software-level containment of row hammer attacks" was invented by Sudhanva Gurumurthi (Austin, Texas) and Vilas Sridharan (Jamaica Plain, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for mitigating row hammer attacks is provided. A row hammer alert is generated by a component of a memory architecture controlling operation of a memory device. The component may be a memory controller, coherency logic, or data fabric. The component obtains a physical address of an aggressor row that caused the alert and obtain...