ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,402, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Memory with a contact between a data storage device and a data processing device" 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 memory includes a data storage device, a data processing device, and a contact element. The data processing device is disposed over the data storage device. The contact element is disposed between the data storage device and the data processing device. The contact element electrically connects the data storage devic...