US Patent Issued to HANWHA SOLUTIONS, HANWHA on April 14 for "Premelter for preliminarily melting silicon to be supplied to main crucible and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,084, issued on April 14, was assigned to HANWHA SOLUTIONS Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and HANWHA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Premelter for preliminarily melting silicon to be supplied to main crucible and control method thereof" was invented by Han Woong Jeon (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Sung Park (Seoul, South Korea), Young Jun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Young Min Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Young Hwan Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a premelter for pre-melting silicon before supplying to a main crucible capable of accurately measuring an input amount of molten silicon input into...