US Patent Issued to HANWHA SOLUTIONS, HANWHA on March 24 for "Apparatus for continuously growing ingot" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,237, issued on March 24, was assigned to HANWHA SOLUTIONS Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and HANWHA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for continuously growing ingot" was invented by Jin Sung Park (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Seok Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Young Jun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Keun Ho Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Han Woong Jeon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a continuous ingot growing apparatus, and more specifically, to a continuous ingot growing apparatus which melts a solid silicon material supplied to a preliminary crucible to supply the solid silicon material to...