ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,133, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory device security and row hammer mitigation" was invented by Yang Lu (Boise, Idaho), Sujeet Ayyapureddi (Boise, Idaho), Edmund J. Gieske (Cedar Park, Texas), Cagdas Dirik (Indianola, Wash.), Ameen D. Akel (Rancho Cordova, Calif.), Elliott C. Cooper-Balis (San Jose, Calif.), Amitava Majumdar (Boise, Idaho), Robert M. Walker (Raleigh, N.C.) and Danilo Caraccio (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus for memory device security and row hammer mitigation are described. A control mechanism may be implemented in a front-end a...