US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 31 for "Apparatuses and methods for increased reliability row hammer counts" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,271, issued on March 31, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for increased reliability row hammer counts" was invented by Hiroshi Akamatsu (Boise, Idaho) and Yuan He (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods increased reliability row hammer counts. Each word line of a memory may have an associated count value, stored in memory cells of the word line. Information in memory cells may be prone to change, such as from neutron strike. A counter circuit may decrease the count value each time the word line is accessed, since a decreasing count will tend to overestimate ...