US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 13 for "Detecting and mitigating memory attacks" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,304, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detecting and mitigating memory attacks" was invented by Ishwar Agarwal (Redmond, Wash.), Stefan Saroiu (Redmond, Wash.), Alastair Wolman (Seattle) and Daniel Sebastian Berger (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods implemented on a memory controller for detecting and mitigating memory attacks (e.g., row hammer attacks). For example, a memory controller may engage a counting mode in which activation counts for memory sub-banks are tracked. For example, a memory controller may engage a coun...