US Patent Issued to Blue Origin Manufacturing on Nov. 3 for "Induction melting of silicon using tantalum as a heat-delivery seed" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,381, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Blue Origin Manufacturing LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Induction melting of silicon using tantalum as a heat-delivery seed" was invented by Lauren Thomas Sagan (Los Angeles), Vernon G. Harris II (Los Angeles), Patrick Michael McGarey (South Pasadena, Calif.), Albert Ridilla (Kent, Wash.), Alexander ImBault (Sierra Madre, Calif.) and Eric D. Contreras (San Dimas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and configurations for melting silicon by induction using tantalum as a heat-delivery seed are presented. The tantalum supports induction-generated electrical eddy currents and resultantly heats t...