US Patent Issued to Ebner Industrieofenbau on April 22 for "Apparatus for heating multiple crucibles" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,412, issued on April 22, was assigned to Ebner Industrieofenbau GmbH (Leonding, Austria).

"Apparatus for heating multiple crucibles" was invented by Robert Ebner (Leonding, Austria), Kanaparin Ariyawong (Leonding, Austria), Chih-Yung Hsiung (Leonding, Austria) and Ghassan Barbar (Neunkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crucible device includes a heating chamber, at least a first crucible in which a first crystal is growable, and at least a second crucible in which a second crystal is growable. The first crucible and the second crucible are arranged within the heating chamber spaced apart from each other along a horizonta...