US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on April 7 for "Probabilistic tracker management for memory attack mitigation" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,798, issued on April 7, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Probabilistic tracker management for memory attack mitigation" was invented by Aamer Jaleel (Northborough, Mass.) and Gururaj Saileshwar (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rowhammer attacks, which are malicious processes that rapidly issue access requests to memory, can impose serious security threats including being used to tamper data, take control of entire systems, and even breach confidentiality. Current solutions to defend against these attacks are limited, as they typically employ a deterministic tracker to track the portions of memory accessed a...