ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,601, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to EBNER Industrieofenbau GmbH (Leonding, Austria).
"Method for growing crystals" was invented by Robert Ebner (Leonding, Austria), Kanaparin Ariyawong (Leonding, Austria), Ghassan Barbar (Neunkirchen, Germany) and Chih-Yung Hsiung (Leonding, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for growing crystals using PVT or PVD or CVD, includes: providing: a chamber for crystal growth, a crucible in the chamber including at least one deposition section with a seed crystal and a base material for crystal growth, at least one temperature monitoring device, a gas supply device and at least one fluid i...