US Patent Issued to Fujikoshi Machinery on March 25 for "Production apparatus for metal oxide single crystal and production method for metal oxide single crystal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,674, issued on March 25, was assigned to Fujikoshi Machinery Corp. (Nagano, Japan).

"Production apparatus for metal oxide single crystal and production method for metal oxide single crystal" was invented by Keigo Hoshikawa (Nagano, Japan), Toshinori Taishi (Nagano, Japan) and Takumi Kobayashi (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production apparatus for a metal oxide single crystal according to the present invention includes a crucible for housing a crystal raw material and a seed crystal, which has a first end and a second end, and in which the crystal raw material is disposed on a first end side, and the seed crystal is...