US Patent Issued to GlobalWafers on May 6 for "Single crystal growth susceptor assembly with sacrifice ring" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,795, issued on May 6, was assigned to GlobalWafers Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Single crystal growth susceptor assembly with sacrifice ring" was invented by Hong-Huei Huang (Zhubei, Taiwan), Benjamin Michael Meyer (Defiance, Mo.), Chun-Sheng Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Chen Chou (Taipei, Taiwan), Chen-Yi Lin (Miaoil, Taiwan) and Feng-Chien Tsai (Zhubai, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A susceptor assembly for supporting a crucible during a crystal growth process includes a susceptor base, a tubular sidewall connected to the susceptor base, and a removable sacrifice ring interposed between the susceptor base and the sidewall. Eac...