ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,084, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for manufacturing a semiconductor memory" was invented by Chiang-Lin Shih (New Taipei, Taiwan), Jhen-Yu Tsai (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Tseng-Fu Lu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a semiconductor memory is provided. The method includes steps of forming a data storage device; forming a data processing device over the data storage device; forming a contact element electrically connected to the data storage device; and forming a data processing device over the data storage device and electrically connect...