ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,723, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Memory device including capacitor contacts having different materials and method for preparing the same" was invented by Ying-Cheng Chuang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a bit line structure disposed over a semiconductor substrate, and a lower capacitor contact disposed in and extending above the semiconductor substrate. The lower capacitor contact includes polysilicon. The memory device also includes an upper capacitor contact disposed over the lower capacitor contact. The upper capacitor contact ...