ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,749, issued on June 23, was assigned to GlobalWafers Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Methods for adding a plurality of dopant batches to an ingot puller apparatus" was invented by Chun-Sheng Wu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Hong-Huei Huang (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Hsien-Ta Tseng (Zhunan Township, Taiwan), Chen-Yi Lin (Zhunan Township, Taiwan), Feng-Chien Tsai (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Yu-Chiao Wu (Frontenac, Mo.), Benjamin Michael Meyer (Defiance, Mo.), Young Gil Jeong (Frisco, Texas), Che-Min Chang (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Carissima Marie Hudson (Saint Charles, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ingot puller apparatus for producing a doped singl...