ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,263, issued on March 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Protective actions for a memory device based on detecting an attack" was invented by Aaron P. Boehm (Boise, Idaho), David Hulton (Seattle), Jeremy Chritz (Seattle), Tamara Schmitz (Scotts Valley, Calif.) and Max S. Vohra (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for protective actions for a memory device based on detecting an attack are described. In some systems, a memory device may detect whether a fault is injected into the memory device. The memory device may apply a delay during boot up if a fault is detected. To ensure ...