US Patent Issued to Hanwha Solutions on Feb. 24 for "Method for controlling supply of solid silicon to preliminary crucible of ingot growth apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,857, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hanwha Solutions Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for controlling supply of solid silicon to preliminary crucible of ingot growth apparatus" was invented by Jin Sung Park (Seoul, South Korea), Keun Ho Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Young Min Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Han Woong Jeon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for controlling the supply of solid silicon to a preliminary crucible of an ingot growth apparatus for maintaining a constant amount of molten silicon in the preliminary crucible by measuring the height of the molten silicon in the preliminary ...