ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,109, issued on March 24, was assigned to Hanwha Solutions Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"High-temperature endoscope preventing impurities of ingot growth apparatus from being deposited" was invented by Han Woong Jeon (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Sung Park (Seoul, South Korea), Keun Ho Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Young Min Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-temperature endoscope preventing impurities of an ingot growth apparatus from being deposited, according to one embodiment of the present invention, may comprise: a frame extending to the inside of a chamber of the ingot growth apparatus and having a gas dis...