US Patent Issued to EBNER Industrieofenbau on June 3 for "Crystal growth apparatus with movable seed fixture" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,035, issued on June 3, was assigned to EBNER Industrieofenbau GmbH (Leonding, Austria).

"Crystal growth apparatus with movable seed fixture" was invented by Robert Ebner (Leonding, Austria), Chih-Yung Hsiung (Leonding, Austria), Ghassan Barbar (Neunkirchen, Germany), Kanaparin Ariyawong (Leonding, Austria), Bernd Gruhn (Leonding, Austria) and Tong Li (Leonding, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crucible device for growing crystals includes a container being arrangeable in a heating chamber of a heating apparatus, and a seed fixture element. The container includes a base section and the seed fixture element includes a seed surfa...