US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 29 for "Apparatuses and methods for direct refresh management attack identification" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,839, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for direct refresh management attack identification" was invented by Yunyoung Lee (Meridian, Idaho) and Yuan He (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory devices direct refresh management (DRFM) attack identification. A DRFM logic circuit receives DRFM aggressor address and compares it to a previous DRFM aggressor address. If there is not a match, then a DRFM operation is performed. If there is a match, then the DRFM operation may be skipped. This may prevent repeated DRFM operations from being performed on a same DRFM ...