US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on April 7 for "Apparatuses and methods for row hammer counter mat" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,459, issued on April 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for row hammer counter mat" was invented by Yuan He (Boise, Idaho) and Dong Pan (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for row hammer counter mat. A memory array may have a number of memory mats and a counter memory mat. The counter mat stores count values, each of which is associated with a row in one of the other memory mats. When a row is accessed, the count value is read out, changed, and written back to the counter mat. In some embodiments, the count value may be processed within access logic of t...