US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 23 for "Detection and mitigation of attacks on row hammer mitigation circuits" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,016, issued on June 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Detection and mitigation of attacks on row hammer mitigation circuits" was invented by Sujeet Ayyapureddi (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to detecting and mitigating waterfall attacks are described. A memory device may include a waterfall attack mitigation circuit that is configured to detect, based on the ratio of read commands to write command received by the memory device, whether the memory device is the target of a waterfall attack. Upon detecting that the memory device is the target of a waterfa...